orcharhino

orcharhino is a comprehensive solution for automating and managing data centers, offering provisioning, configuration management, and lifecycle management support.

Here, you’ll find insightful blog posts covering everything from IT automation and DevOps to best practices using orcharhino. Stay up to date with the latest trends, tips, and in-depth guides to optimize your infrastructure management with orcharhino.

Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster with orcharhino

2. December 2022

This blog post is about an orcharhino feature called application-centric deployment (ACD), and describes the process of deploying a Kubernetes cluster with orcharhino. It allows administrators to create hosts based on application templates, and makes it easier to run multiple instances/versions of a complex application.

Mouse-free

29. August 2022

When I say I'm an IT consultant, what I really mean is that I've mastered Vim. All problems become so easy and quick to solve, because editing the files happens as if by magic. And in an emergency, even without a graphical user interface. Here are some tips that should make life and work with Vim easier for all readers.

Using Packer to Speed Up Internal Test Deployments – ATIX in Action

20. May 2022

For internal orcharhino testing, we use the template-based deployments deployment. Using up-to-date VM templates built by Packer speeds up our testing and development process.

Automated Windows Patches with Ansible

16. February 2022

As a specialist for Linux patch management, we are often asked whether we are also familiar with Windows patch management and whether we can provide an automated solution for this. The answer is pretty simple, YES we can. We have already built and implemented fully automated Windows patch management with Ansible for several customers.

orcharhino and Sophos – a malware trail search

11. February 2022

The use of anti-virus and security software is a prerequisite in most infrastructure scenarios. This makes it all the more important to adapt them to the respective usage scenario. orcharhino as the central hub in the computing cluster is of particular importance.

ATIX & the Open Source Community

9. November 2020

Smart proxies: What is it and why do I need it?

9. June 2020

Smart proxies are network nodes, which take over certain tasks in other networks for the orcharhino. In the simplest case, hosts get their content directly from orcharhinoand use it as DNS and DHCP server.

orcharhino Applicance

30. October 2019

The orcharhino Appliance for VMware is a preconfigured orcharhino that is already preinstalled in a virtual machine and can be adapted to your own needs with little effort. The appliance is based on a CentOS 7 Linux and comes as an OVA (Open Virtual Appliance / Open Virtual Archive)package.

The Tentacles of orcharhino – Deploying with Many Subnets

6. September 2019

Manually and individually setting up or deploying servers is a tedious task. But wait a minute—there’s orcharhino, which automates just that! With our data center automation tool, hosts can be configured, provisioned and deployed at the touch of a button.

orcharhino meets Windows (Windows Network Deploy)

6. September 2019

Since Version 4.5.0, orcharhino also enables Windows installations. This means that in addition to numerous Linux derivatives, all newer Windows versions from “Server 2012” onward can be installed and managed with orcharhino.

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