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Category: Munki in a Box

  • Initial Release: Munki in a Cloud

    I wanted this all to come together months ago. It hasn’t! But it is in a state that I can release it. Welcome, Munki in a Cloud. This is the initial release of a product that I hope I can get developed more fully. It’s designed to, on the host Mac, prepare a repository of…

  • Transitions: Munki in a Cloud

    It’s MacDevOps YVR week, one of my favorite of the year. This morning, Clayton Burlison released an awesome package called terraform-munki that does something super helpful: it creates a set of terraform templates to create useful resources within your own AWS account to prepare an S3 bucket, and create a CloudFront Distribution with a TLS…

  • The End of Munki-in-a-Box

    Today, Apple released some updated guidance for macOS Server. Apple will be deprecating the following services in Server.app in the Spring: Calendar, Contacts, DHCP, DNS, Mail, Messages, NetInstall, VPN, Websites, and Wiki. With no native Websites functionality, Munki-in-a-Box will cease to function correctly against a Server.app installation. I’m faced with a few choices: Pick a…

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    Munki Mistakes Made Right, a Mac AD UK Conference Presentation

    Thanks very much to the folks at Amsys for having me out to London to present my talk this year at MacADUK, called Munki Mistakes Made Right. Over the last few years, I’ve done probably 25 munki installations, in groups as small as a few clients, or as many as a hundred. There are always…

  • Munki-in-a-Box Adds HTTP Authentication and SSL

    Tonight I’ve released a test branch of Munki-in-a-Box that adds a significant feature: Out of the box HTTP Authentication over SSL for a higher level of security. Previous versions of Munki-in-a-Box have leveraged transport layer security to make sure that the packages and manifests sent from the server to the client were not captured in…

  • Munki-in-a-Box 1.5.0 Beta 1

    When Rich Trouton recently blogged about automating the setup of Server.app, we talked a bit about how it might apply to Munki in a Box. The idea of having a version that you could run entirely without having to have pre-loaded Server.app was attractive, as it would save steps. On the heels of the work…

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    Accessing Server.app’s Web Application Toggles from the Command Line

    Apple’s Server.app offering has a strong command line interface that is usually tied to the serveradmin command verb. This is great when you want to start or stop the web service, as well as view all of the Apache settings: sudo serveradmin start web sudo serveradmin stop web sudo serveradmin settings web But the thing…

  • Munki in a Box

    One of the projects I’ve been working on for the last year is Munki in a Box, designed to take your bare Mac server to being a fully-implemented and ready-to-roll Munki server with automatic management through AutoPkg and AutoPkgr, GUI configuration through MunkiAdmin, as well as an inventory control scheme using Munkireport-PHP. You can read…