Tag Archive for: Infrastructure Automation
Rundeck as a starting point for a simple self-service portal
In this webinar, you’ll be introduced to Rundeck, an automation solution that allows teams and entire organizations to schedule and execute complex workflows. Through its intuitive web interface and fine-grained access control, Rundeck enables a self-service approach where users can trigger their own pre-approved automation tasks.
Automating Server Provisioning – How to Manage On-Premise and Cloud Infrastructure with orcharhino
In this webinar, you will receive a practical introduction to the provisioning of servers in both on-premise and cloud environments. The aim is to show how orcharhino can help streamline infrastructure management and improve consistency across deployment types.
Manage IT infrastructure efficiently: Automating the deployment of Linux VMs
In this webinar, we will look at different approaches to automating the deployment of new machines, whether through network-based installations or cloning existing virtual machines.
Streamline Your Linux Servers: Automation for Patch & Release Management in Data Centers
In today's fast-paced digital world, managing a data center is no small feat, especially when it involves numerous Linux servers across various distributions.
Event-Driven Ansible
Event-Driven Ansible is here and it opens a whole new world of possibilites for working with Ansible. This article gives an introduction to it and shows a minimal example.
Automating Kafka with Ansible
In all areas of life, there are a lot of issues we are not aware of. To measure these problems, we use the so-called fulfillment rate. For example: with a fulfillment rate of 90%, a heart beat would stop every 85 seconds, and an average A4 page of text would contain 30 typos. A fulfillment rate of 99.9% (which seems a lot) still means 22,000 wrong bank bookings per hour, and a total of 32,000 missed heart beats per year. The answer is automation and standardization! These approaches help solve problems we are often not aware of.
Configuration Management across Different Networks with AWX
At the Chemnitz Linux Days 2023, Ottavia Balducci, IT Consultant at ATIX, presented the advantages of AWX. AWX is a tool that can be used to configure hosts with Ansible. It is therefore particularly popular with larger organizations. AWX is open source, fully customisable, has a web UI, REST API, RBAC, CI/CD ... There are many reasons for working with AWX.
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.
AWX and GitLab Webhooks
Tools like AWX and Ansible Automation Platform have become essential in large organizations to manage a large amount of Ansible projects. They provide the ability to pull Ansible code from multiple sources, schedule jobs, distribute credentials and permissions for different users in the organization, and a lot more. We recommend managing Ansible code in a version control system, specifically Git. There are several platforms for functions beyond mere version control. In this article, GitLab plays a central role.
Ansible Best Practices
Ansible is a tool that automates configuration management through code written in YAML. It is extremely popular, partly thanks to the fact that it works without clients and daemons: all it needs is Python and an SSH connection!
Tag Archive for: Infrastructure Automation
Rundeck as a starting point for a simple self-service portal
In this webinar, you’ll be introduced to Rundeck, an automation solution that allows teams and entire organizations to schedule and execute complex workflows. Through its intuitive web interface and fine-grained access control, Rundeck enables a self-service approach where users can trigger their own pre-approved automation tasks.
Automating Server Provisioning – How to Manage On-Premise and Cloud Infrastructure with orcharhino
In this webinar, you will receive a practical introduction to the provisioning of servers in both on-premise and cloud environments. The aim is to show how orcharhino can help streamline infrastructure management and improve consistency across deployment types.
Manage IT infrastructure efficiently: Automating the deployment of Linux VMs
In this webinar, we will look at different approaches to automating the deployment of new machines, whether through network-based installations or cloning existing virtual machines.
Streamline Your Linux Servers: Automation for Patch & Release Management in Data Centers
In today's fast-paced digital world, managing a data center is no small feat, especially when it involves numerous Linux servers across various distributions.
Event-Driven Ansible
Event-Driven Ansible is here and it opens a whole new world of possibilites for working with Ansible. This article gives an introduction to it and shows a minimal example.
Automating Kafka with Ansible
In all areas of life, there are a lot of issues we are not aware of. To measure these problems, we use the so-called fulfillment rate. For example: with a fulfillment rate of 90%, a heart beat would stop every 85 seconds, and an average A4 page of text would contain 30 typos. A fulfillment rate of 99.9% (which seems a lot) still means 22,000 wrong bank bookings per hour, and a total of 32,000 missed heart beats per year. The answer is automation and standardization! These approaches help solve problems we are often not aware of.
Configuration Management across Different Networks with AWX
At the Chemnitz Linux Days 2023, Ottavia Balducci, IT Consultant at ATIX, presented the advantages of AWX. AWX is a tool that can be used to configure hosts with Ansible. It is therefore particularly popular with larger organizations. AWX is open source, fully customisable, has a web UI, REST API, RBAC, CI/CD ... There are many reasons for working with AWX.
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.
AWX and GitLab Webhooks
Tools like AWX and Ansible Automation Platform have become essential in large organizations to manage a large amount of Ansible projects. They provide the ability to pull Ansible code from multiple sources, schedule jobs, distribute credentials and permissions for different users in the organization, and a lot more. We recommend managing Ansible code in a version control system, specifically Git. There are several platforms for functions beyond mere version control. In this article, GitLab plays a central role.
Ansible Best Practices
Ansible is a tool that automates configuration management through code written in YAML. It is extremely popular, partly thanks to the fact that it works without clients and daemons: all it needs is Python and an SSH connection!
