Technical previews

orcharhino contains technical previews for testing in staging environments and to gather feedback.

Limitations

  1. Technical previews may vanish at any time, at discrete decision of ATIX AG.

  2. Technical previews may alter in ways that are incompatible at any time, with respect to any aspect, including but not limited to the workflow, stored information on orcharhino Server, and to the user interface.

  3. Technical previews are not prepared for upgrade nor tested for upgrades.

Technical previews are unsupported. ATIX AG does not recommend running them in production.

KernelCare plugin

technical preview since orcharhino 6.5

The KernelCare plugin can patch the Linux kernel on hosts without rebooting them. For more information, see Using the KernelCare plugin in Managing Hosts.

If you want to test KernelCare in your staging environment, please reach out to ATIX AG about your intended usage.

Resource Quota plugin

technical preview since orcharhino 7.0

You can use the Resource Quota plugin to limit users' access to host resources during host provisioning. For more information, see Limiting host resources in Administering orcharhino.

If you want to use the Resource Quota plugin in your staging environment, please reach out to ATIX AG about your intended usage.

Insights in orcharhino

technical preview since orcharhino 7.6

You can use Insights in orcharhino to analyzes system health and configuration by applying predefined rules to a small set of local data, such as installed packages, running services, and configuration settings. For more information, see Installing and configuring Insights in orcharhino in Installing orcharhino Server.

If you want to use Insights in orcharhino in your staging environment, please reach out to ATIX AG about your intended usage.

OpenTofu plugin

technical preview since orcharhino 7.8

You can use OpenTofu to provision and manage hosts on Hetzner cloud. For more information, see Provision hosts through OpenTofu.

If you want to use OpenTofu in your staging environment, please reach out to ATIX AG about your intended usage. For more information, see OpenTofu plugin: limitations and known issues.

Ansible Director plugin

technical preview since orcharhino 7.9

You can use Ansible Director to configure hosts using version controlled Ansible content. Ansible Director allows you to control the base container image, its Python version, and the Ansible version. For more information, see Configure hosts by using Ansible Director.

If you want to use Ansible Director in your staging environment, please reach out to ATIX AG about your intended usage. For more information, see Ansible Director plugin: limitations and known issues.