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.

Delbian Repositories Pulp

Managing Large Debian Repositories with Pulp

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Pulp is a free, open-source platform for software repository management. You can fetch, upload, and distribute content from various sources. Repository versioning makes sure that nothing is lost as you can always roll back to previous versions. The pulp_deb plugin adds APT repository support.

Configuring Hosts using Ansible

You can use Ansible to configure managed hosts within orcharhino. For our up-to-date documentation, see Configuring Hosts using Ansible. Ansible is an automation engine and configuration management tool. It works without client and daemon and solely relies on Python and SSH. Ansible consists of a control node, for example a notebook, a workstation, or a server and managed nodes, that is the hosts in its inventory. You can use Ansible to configure hosts similar to Puppet and Salt.
openshift foreman

Installing OpenShift through Foreman

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If you understand how to install CoreOS, you can also install OpenShift 4. You can provision CoreOS hosts using Foreman. In his talk at the Config Management Camp 2023, Jan explained how to do so, what obstacles there are, and how to use this solution to deploy an OpenShift cluster.

orcharhino and SecureBoot

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Security is mandatory in today's IT. Although orcharhino was primarily developed for lifecycle management of servers, more and more customers demand unattended provisioning and lifecycle management of laptop systems. This often means that you have to enable SecureBoot. In this article, we would like to give you a short introduction to SecureBoot and explain why it is difficult to combine it with orcharhino’s unattended provisioning.
Mouse-Free ATIX blog

Mouse-free

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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.