Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution

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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!

Source code for Fleet is available at https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet.

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?

What would MDM enable on Linux that isn't already covered by FreeIPA/IdM combined with ansible?

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

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.

Better help desk employees quickly move on to better, higher paying roles.

Such a typical HN comment, I imagine Fleet would provide far better UX

Mobile device management (MDM)

Thank you. +1 for expanded acronyms.

Does anyone knows any alternative simple open source MDM solution that works with Windows, Linux and Mac?

Is there still a connection between Kolide and Fleet, besides the shared ancestry and that they both use osquery?

Negatron: https://fleetdm.com/handbook/company#history

Love this!

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