orcharhino Basics

Multiple Linux distributions: orcharhino is used by customers running single or multiple Linux distributions including CentOS, Debian, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise 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. 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.

Manage your repositories, synchronize and deliver them to your managed host systems.

Create different environments like dev, test, and prod which ship different versions of your repositories and packages.

Allow your managed host to access a specific set of version controlled packages though an environment.

Restrict the access further by using subscriptions.

Vendor independence: orcharhino supports multiple configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, and Salt), multiple virtualization options (Amazon EC2, Google GCE, Kubevirt, KVM, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, oVirt, Proxmox, Red Hat Virtualization, 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.