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Re:Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution by zwass on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:55PM (#35530602)
Disclaimer: I'm the CTO

One of my favorite things about this is that we are bringing a GitOps workflow to IT teams. As a software engineer myself, seeing change management and CI coming to other domains within the organization is incredibly exciting!

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Re:Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution by lsowen on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:58PM (#35532834)
Is the MDM for MacOs only? Or is it cross platform? If not currently cross platform, are there any plans to support Linux desktops in the future?
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Re:Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution by sekh60 on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:00PM (#35532862)
What would MDM enable on Linux that isn't already covered by FreeIPA/IdM combined with ansible?
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Re:Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution by lsowen on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:04PM (#35532902)
Ansible is primarily a "push" model, which is hard with systems which may or may not be online from various locations (eg laptops).

Plus having a cross platform MDM would allow an IT team to manage a fleet of end user devices without having to become experts in each of them. For example, the MDM could have push button "erase this machine", etc

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Re:Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution by sekh60 on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:23PM (#35533086)
Very good point on the push model when it comes to devices like laptops.

Not sure how I feel on the second point. Managing Linux at scale, aside from the laptop point is pretty easy. Maybe companies need better help desk employees.

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Re:Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution by toomuchtodo on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:27PM (#35533933)
Better help desk employees quickly move on to better, higher paying roles.
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Re:Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution by beetahnator on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:21AM (#35541274)
Such a typical HN comment, I imagine Fleet would provide far better UX
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