Release Notes

orcharhino 6.4.0 is here!

Update to EL 8.8

With orcharhino 6.4, we deliver EL 8.8, which offers great benefits. It includes an upgrade to Ansible 2.14.2 with additional requirements that affect all orcharhino releases running on EL8. For a smooth transition, please look at Using ansible-core 2.14.2 with Python 3.11 in the ATIX Service Portal when updating to EL 8.8.

Highlights

Templates

• We have enabled autocompletion for the DSL documentation in the template editor. You can now easily see available macros when writing or changing a template. You can press CTRL + SPACE to get a list of available items. For more information, see https://(your orcharhino host)/templates_doc. You can enable autocompletion by checking the “Autocompletion” checkbox.
• We have added a report template that provides an overview of installed packages on managed hosts: “Host – All Installed Packages”. Depending on the operating system of the managed host, it shows all installed RPM and DEB packages.

Proxmox Compute Resource

• orcharhino now supports Proxmox Release 7.3 as a compute resource provider.

  You can use orcharhino to automatically provision and manage virtual machines in a Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.3.
  In addition, we have revised the Proxmox Compute Resource documentation: https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/compute_resources/proxmox.html

Documentation

• Configuring orcharhino Proxies with a Load Balancer

  • You can configure your orcharhino Server to use a load balancer to distribute client requests and network load across multiple orcharhino Proxies. This results in an overall improvement of services provided by the orcharhino Proxies. https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/configuring_orcharhino_proxies_with_a_load_balancer.html
• We have reworked the documentation on how to configure managed hosts using Ansible: https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/configuration_management/ansible.html
  If you want to integrate orcharhino with AWX, Ansible Tower, or Oracle Linux Automation Manager, take a look at https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/integrating_orcharhino_and_awx.html.
• We have added details on how to use Ansible vaults within orcharhino to securely store and access confidential information when managing hosts using Ansible. For more information, see https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/configuration_management/ansible.html#using-ansible-vault-with-orcharhino_ansible.