[zwass]

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.

[lsowen]

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?

[sekh60]

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

[lsowen]

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

[sekh60]

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.

[toomuchtodo]

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

[beetahnator]

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