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:

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

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

 

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

Addigy (Silver Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

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)

Get started with Fleet (using Docker)

MunkiReport setup in Docker

Docker compose

MDS from Two Canoes software

Server.app is now discontinued

 

MacDevOps Videos:

MDOYVR19 – MacStadium (SPONSOR) – Intro to Orka

 

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

Addigy (Silver Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

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 setup in Docker

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

 

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

Addigy (Silver Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

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

MacAdminsMonthly (guest Mat X)

Hosting FleetDM in AWS EKS (Prima Virani)

Tetris in zsh

macOS Monterey Network Quality testing 

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

Addigy (Silver Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

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

MDOYVR 2018 – Matt Doyle – Santa Upvote

MDOYVR 2016 – Allister – Santa

MDOYVR 2017 – Ed Marczak – How to Fail

Links:

Santa project (GitHub)

Santa project documentation

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

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

Baez Cloud

Published: 2022-03-29

Felipe Baez joins MatX and JD to talk about setting up his own cloud and email server, thoughts on the new Mac Studio, and forecasting what might be in the new Mac Pro.

Trigger Warning: Discussion of running one’s own email server.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Felipe Baez (Twitter) (YouTube)

Links:

Upgrade from Google legacy edition

Synology NAS

DKIM and SPF

QNAP NAS

LucidLink

Steps for installing macFUSE 

Reduced security on Apple Silicon (how to enable)

Dante – Audio Network

NDI – Video over IP

Audio Hijack – route audio (and record)

Final Cut Pro

Mac Studio

Videos:

MDOYVR conference time lapse video

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

So Many Talks

Published: 2022-03-22

Join Mat X and JD in a planning session for the 2022 MacDevOps YVR Conference, where they discuss perks for speakers, calls for volunteers, and a movie night.

June 15-17, 2022 – https://mdoyvr.com

Videos:

MDOYVR 2016 – Osquery or it didn’t happen – Allister Banks

MDOYVR 2017 – Macnarok – Michael Lynn 

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

Log All The Data with Tom and Dan from Snowflake

Published: 2022-03-15

Co-hosts JD and Mat X talk with Tom and Dan from Snowflake about logging all the data. Everything! Osquery, FleetDM, and what do you do with 400TB of logs.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guests:

Tom and Dan (Twitter)

Links:

Snowflake osquery Fleet magic (tlark GitHub blog post)

Snowflake Db (Twitter)

Snowflake  #DataCloud 

Osquery

FleetDM

Munki (open source macOS software management)

Gorilla (Munki for Windows)

Acronyms:

SCIM (System for cross-domain Identity Management)

RBAC (Role based access control)

FIM (Osquery File integrity monitoring)

ELK (Elastic Logstash Kibana)

Videos:

MDOYVR17 – Osquery and Streamalert – Sam Keeley

MDOYVR18 – QuickTalk – Henry Stamerjohann – How to get them SHAS

Per Oloffson MunkiReport Quick Fix

Published: 2022-03-08

Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with MacAdmins legend Per Olofsson, aka Mager Valp, to discuss the recent MunkiReport quick fix and how open source is fun.

Hosts:

Mat X and JD

Guest:

Per Olofsson (Mager Valp: Twitter / GitHub)

Links:

MunkiReport project (GitHub)

Videos:

MunkiReport and the story of Open Source (MDO YVR 2019)

MunkiReport workshop (MDO YVR 2020)

MunkiReport v6 demo (MDO YVR 2021)

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)