VMware-Alternative gesucht? So gelingt die erfolgreiche Migration mit orcharhino
Die steigenden Lizenzkosten und die wachsende Komplexität der IT-Landschaften stellen Unternehmen vor neue Herausforderungen. Besonders für IT-Entscheider wird die Suche nach einer leistungsfähigen VMware-Alternative immer dringlicher. Eine flexible, kosteneffiziente und zukunftssichere Lösung ist gefragt – und genau hier setzt orcharhino an. Als zentrale Plattform für das systemübergreifende Management bietet orcharhino die ideale Grundlage für […]
Oracle Linux Manager ist EOL – Leitfaden zur Migration
Oracle Linux Manager und Oracle Linux 7 befinden sich noch für eine begrenzte Zeit in der Extended Support Phase. Als Ersatz für Oracle Linux Manager empfiehlt Oracle dessen OS Management Hub. Dieser ist Teil des Oracle Linux Support und basiert auf der Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute Abonnements, das Kunden ausschließlich als Managed Service […]
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 GitHub, orcharhino automates the installation and distribution […]
„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 follows: %post mkdir -p /var/www/html/pub/pushd /usr/share/doc/%{name}/html/zip –recurse-paths […]
orcharhino meets new Windows Templates
Ab Version 5.8 kommt orcharhino mit neuen Provisioning Templates für Windows. Diese erweitern die Vielfalt an Funktionen Ihrer Windows-Deployments beispielsweise um eine Installation in Netzen ohne DHCP und parametrisierten Domain Join. Grundsätzlich kann orcharhino neue Hosts auf drei Arten erstellen: Boot disk based, Network based oder Image based. Die Boot disk based Installation triggert ein […]
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 hosts is to mirror […]
Deploying a Prometheus and Grafana Cluster Using Application Centric Deployment
ACD and its benefits The in-house developed application centric deployment (short: ACD) plugin helps you deploy multi host applications with the click of a button. Applications are based on Ansible playbooks and application definitions. Generally, an application consists of multiple services and therefore requires different kinds of hosts connected to each other. These hosts […]
Deploying an ELK Cluster with Application Centric Deployment
Starting with orcharhino 5.7, you can deploy applications via the in-house developed application-centric deployment (short: ACD) plugin. ACD allows you to deploy multi-host applications with the click of a button based on Ansible playbooks and application definitions. Refer to the application-centric deployment guide for more information. Requirements for this example orcharhino configured to deploy […]
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 […]