orcharhino Report templates
This blog article introduces report templates as a built-in, easy method within orcharhino to generate customizable reports on the managed hosts. As an example, we develop a report template, which returns the kind and number of installable patches and errata for each registered orcharhino host. Blog Keeping a watchful eye on your host-specific status updates […]
DocOps at ATIX – the deploy stage: Automatically deploying to an internal http server via our Documentation Gitlab Pipeline
This short blog series will explain how we automatically test, build, and deploy documentation mostly using vim, git, sphinx, docker, and gitlab. This “DocOps at ATIX” blog article describes how we deploy our built documentation to an internal http server via our Documentation Gitlab Pipeline. The first and second stage test and build the […]
The tentacles of orcharhino – Deploying with many subnets
Setting up and deploying servers manually and individually is a tedious task. But wait a minute – there’s orcharhino, which automates exactly that. With our data center automation tool, hosts can be configured, provisioned and deployed at the touch of a button.
Errata for debian-based systems in orcharhino
Errata for debian-based systems in orcharhino English Version Release 4.0.0 of orcharhino brought not only a completely reworked interface, but another hotly anticipated feature: the Errata management of Debian and Ubuntu hosts. This sets a new milestone in orcharhinodevelopment. For over a year now we have been continuously working on the expansion of the Debian/Ubuntu […]
Errata for debian-based systems in orcharhino
Errata for debian-based systems in orcharhino English Version Release 4.0.0 of orcharhino not only brought a completely revised interface, but also another eagerly awaited feature: Errata management for Debian and Ubuntu hosts. This marks a new milestone in the development of orcharhino. For over a year now, we have been working continuously on expanding Debian/Ubuntu […]
Ship Your Own Application Using orcharhino
This blog article is a high-level overview of shipping your own application using orcharhino.Refer to the “Deploying an Internal Application Guide” for step-by-step instructions. Shipping your own application means deploying software that is not part of the default operating system repositories. No matter whether the software is self-developed or available on a platform such as […]
“interesting” SELinux issue with post install script in ‘.spec’ file
My task was pretty straightforward: allow users to download the orcharhino documentation from their orcharhino server.Right now, we’re providing the documentation on each instance at FQDN/or_doc.As we’ve dropped the .pdf support, we want to provide a .zip archive of the html version documentation at FQDN/pub/orcharhino_documentation.zip for users to download. Easy.Let’s amend the .spec file as […]
orcharhino meets new Windows Templates
From version 5.8 orcharhino comes with new provisioning templates for Windows. These extend the variety of functions of your Windows deployments, for example, by installation in networks without DHCP and parameterized domain join. Basically, orcharhino can create new hosts in three ways: Boot disk based, Network based or Image based. The boot disk-based installation triggers […]
orcharhino meets Windows (Windows Network Deploy)
Windows installations have been possible with orcharhino since version 4.5.0. This means that in addition to numerous Linux derivatives, all newer Windows versions from “Server 2012” can also be installed and managed with orcharhino. orcharhino basically offers two ways to create a host system: The bare metal installation (complete new installation with network boot) and […]
deb Content in orcharhino
release notes deb Content in orcharhino orcharhino use the Katello plugin for content management, which in turn relies on Pulp to manage repositories. Pulp itself uses different plugins for different content types, including RPM packages, files, and deb content. The latter is called pulp_deb plugin. Content Management in orcharhinoThe base idea to provide content to […]
