orcharhino is a complete data centre management solution. It provides system lifecycle management through a single easy to use interface. In particular, orcharhino supports automated host deployment, configuration management, and patch management.
- Automatic System Deployment: By utilizing orcharhino's provisioning setup it is possible to deploy preconfigured servers (both virtual and physical) at the click of a button via a network based installation. A wide range of common virtualization solutions are supported, and any necessary changes to your TFTP, DHCP, and DNS services can be performed automatically. New servers can automatically register with orcharhino's content management to receive any additional software needed to provide their intended services. Once deployed, orcharhino provides reports on system health, as well as lifecycle management, accompanying your servers from creation to retirement.
- Patch and Release Management: Patch and Release Management describes the process of acquiring, managing and installing patches and software updates to your infrastructure. Successful patch management allows you to identify vulnerable systems in the blink of an eye and take measures to fix these vulnerabilities. orcharhino provides you with valuable errata information and the ability to apply these errata for the following operating systems:
- Configuration Management: Configuration management describes the task of configuring and maintaining your servers. In other words, making your servers behave as they should. A configuration management solution will keep your configuration in one centrally managed place, and allow you to scale your services rapidly. orcharhino enables you to set up a configuration management environment comprised of a wide range of different operating systems and services, while still maintaining everything in one place.
Due to its broad and flexible nature, any organization managing an IT infrastructure involving anything from a couple of hosts to a fully fledged data centre benefits from using orcharhino and its ecosystem.
orcharhino is vendor neutral:
- Multiple Linux distributions: orcharhino is used by customers running single or multiple Linux distributions including Alma Linux, Amazon Linux, CentOS, Debian, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu. orcharhino can also deploy and configure Microsoft Windows hosts.
- Multiple configuration management solutions: orcharhino supports Ansible, Puppet, and Salt as established configuration management solutions, offering the full range of choices for customers new to these systems, or an easy transition for those already familiar with any of them.
- Multiple virtualization solutions: orcharhino supports a wide range of virtualization options: Amazon EC2, Google GCE, libvirt, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, oVirt, Proxmox, RHV, and VMware vSphere. You can run on-premise physical hosts, virtual machines, entirely cloud based systems, or any combination of all three.
- Reduced administration costs through automation: Routine tasks can be automated, freeing up system administrators for higher value work, therefore greatly increasing the number of hosts that can be managed.
- Faster system adjustments: New hosts can be rolled out at the touch of a button and dismantled just as easily, allowing you to react instantly to a change in your needs and ensuring availability when you need it most.
- Manage your own software: Easily distribute your own software across different lifecycle environments such as development, testing, and production, as well as different logical, physical, or virtual locations in your organization.
- Greater system consistency: Easily manage an organization wide infrastructure across multiple logical, physical, or virtual locations through a single interface. orcharhino's centralized patch and configuration management helps you maintaining a consistent and healthy operating environment.
- Scalability: orcharhino helps you run anything from a hand full of hosts in a single location to a distributed system with thousands of machines.
- Greater system stability: orcharhino actively provides status reports on the health of hosts, configuration drifts, available security errata, and available updates. Using orcharhino, you can quickly apply security patches to all your hosts and ensure software comes from trusted sources.
- Enhanced security: Ensure that your IT infrastructure is protected from third party access and that your data and IT processes are secure. orcharhino supports advanced user management options including user groups, roles and permissions, LDAP authentication, and context based restrictions.
- Vendor independence: orcharhino supports multiple configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, and Salt), multiple virtualization options (Amazon EC2, Google GCE, libvirt, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, oVirt, Proxmox, RHV, and VMware vSphere), and multiple Linux distributions (Alma Linux, Amazon Linux, CentOS, Debian, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu).
- Consulting and engineering: Our consultants work with you to assess your particular needs and help with every aspect of implementation. If needed, our engineers adapt or expand the software to facilitate integration with existing services.
- Training and support: ATIX believes in maximum Know-How transfer to our customers. We offer both professional support and training programs, which may be highly tailored to a customers’ individual needs.
- Simple to use subscription model: ATIX is a partner for companies seeking to control IT infrastructure costs. Our subscription model is kept as simple as possible, depending only on the number of systems you want to manage via orcharhino. You subscribe for one orcharhino server instance plus packages of 50 managed hosts. In addition, we offer standard and premium support as well as a number of services around orcharhino.
ATIX AG is a leading provider of Linux & Open Source solutions for data centers. We believe in open standards and deliver tailor-made Linux and open source solutions for your business success. More than 1,000 companies are among our customers and as a young, up-and-coming company, we have set ourselves a lot of goals for the future.
- orcharhino.com and atix.de
- orcharhino documentation
- source code contributions on github.com/ATIX-AG
- Twitter orcharhino and ATIXAG