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MDOYVR 2022 Speaker series – Joel Rennich

Published: 2022-05-13

Joel Rennich, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD to talk auth, hiring, and 90s alt-rock references.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

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Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Joel Rennich, Jump Cloud

Links:

Michael Bartosh

The Swift programming language

The Python programming language

Amazon Dynamo Db

Teraform (infrastructure automation)

Microsoft VS Code

BareBones BBEdit

Panic software Nova code editor

Git branches in a nutshell

What is a Git mono repo?

AFP548

MacDevOps Videos:

MDOYVR19 – Graham Gilbert – Munki Repo in 3 Mins (using Teraform)

MDOYVR21 – J oel Rennich – You, me and FIDO

MDOYVR20 – Joel Rennich – Single Sign On for Fun and Profit

MDOYVR18 – Joel Rennich – Ruminations on tokens, both secure and insecure

MDOYVR 17 – Joel Rennich – NoMAD Helper

Music:

The Cranberries – Linger

Munki self service on-demand scripts (Alex Narvey GitHub)

MDOYVR 2022 Speaker series – Alex Narvey

Published: 2022-05-10

Alex Narvey, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX to recount the many and various quick talks he has given over the years at MDOYVR.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

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Host:

Mat X

Guest:

Alex Narvey, (GitHub) (Precursor.ca)

Links:

On Demand / Self Service items (Munki wiki)

BlueSky (GitHub)

BlueSky (precursorca GitHub fork)

MacDevOps Videos:

Alex Narvey vote for best MDO YVR talk of all time:

MDOYVR19 – Arjen van Bochoven – MunkiReport and the Story of working on Open Source projects

The collected MDOYVR Quick Talks of Alex Narvey:

MDOYVR18 – Alex Narvey – Mac mini DevOps

MDOYVR19 – Alex Narvey – Quick Talk – FMPRO Watchman REST API

MDOYVR20 – Alex Narvey – Auto Triage Board

MDOYVR21 – Alex Narvey – BlueSky in Docker

MDOYVR Munki videos:

MDOYVR19 – Greg Neagle – A Swift Adventure

MDOYVR17 – Greg Neagle – Munki 3

MDOYVR15 – Greg Neagle – Getting Started with Munki

Get started with Fleet (using Docker)

We love what we do – Chris Chapman, MacStadium

Published: 2022-05-03

Mat X and JD chat to Chris Chapman from MacStadium and talk about the business of Mac hosting and how it has evolved over the years from bespoke servers to CI/CD pipelines.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Chris Chapman, MacStadium

Links:

MacStadium – Orka (Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple)

MunkiReport setup in Docker

Docker compose

MDS from Two Canoes software

Server.app is now discontinued

MacDevOps Videos:

MDOYVR19 – MacStadium (SPONSOR) – Intro to Orka

MunkiReport setup in Docker

MDO:YVR the Lifestyle Brand

Published: 2022-04-26

Mat X and JD discuss MacDevOps:YVR 2022 conference progress, Munki Report PHP via Docker, and the ever-changing world of Apple.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Links:

Honeycomb

MunkiReport 5.7.0 requires special Python 2.7.18 x and PHP 7.4

MDS from Two Canoes software

MicroK8

Docker compose

Caddy (reverse proxy)

Black Magic Design

Filmic Pro – iPhone camera software

Final Cut Pro update with dupe detection

Server.app is now discontinued

Fleetsmith MDM will be shutdown in October 2022

Apple – Plan your MDM migration

SimpleMDM – Migrate your devices

UMAD – Enroll existing devices into MDM

Acronyms:

PTZ (pan title zoom)

SaaS (software as a service)

MacDevOps Videos:

MDOYVR15 – Nick McSpadden – Docker for Mac Admins

MDOYVR 2016 – Chris Johnson – Get Down with Docker

MDOYVR 2021 – Alex Narvey – Blue Sky in Docker

MacAdminsMonthly (guest Mat X)

Make Things Grow – MacDevOps:YVR 2022 planning continues

Published: 2022-04-19

Mat X and JD continue planning the MacDevOps:YVR 2022 conference.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Links:

Google SRE podcast

Hosting FleetDM in AWS EKS (Prima Virani)

Tetris in zsh

macOS Monterey Network Quality testing

MDOYVR 2021 – Henry Stamerjohann – Useful techniques for a successful Santa deployment

Ed Marczak – Santa is not corporate malware

Published: 2022-04-12

Ed Marczak joins Mat X and JD to explore whether the open source project Santa is naughty or nice. We discuss what is “corporate malware” and how IT and Security teams can do their best to empathise with and educate their users.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Ed Marczak. (Web) (Twitter)

Videos:

MDOYVR 2018 – Matt Doyle – Santa Upvote

MDOYVR 2016 – Allister – Santa

MDOYVR 2017 – Ed Marczak – How to Fail

Links:

Santa project (GitHub)

Santa project documentation

Congrats ⁦@siracusa⁩ (working for yourself is the best!) — it was great to get your thoughts on tools for managing Macs, specifically on “corp malware” AKA Santa open source from Google. #macadmins Using these tools to manage Macs can be nice but it can be rough for users pic.twitter.com/nEDn8dHm9D

— mat x (@macvfx) April 2, 2022

Quote from ATP episode #476

John: "They added an app called Santa that would intercept app launches and tell you if the app was naughty or nice"

Marco: "That's creepy as hell"

John: "It was flagging everything"

Catching Up with Shania

Published: 2022-04-05

Mat X and JD catch up with Shania about being on call, new laptop purchasing, dongles, lost devices, and more.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Shania, Mat X and JD