In the previous post, I built a container that serves static files at http://munki/repo using Nginx. Now that we have build the Docker image, let's put it to use. We're going to hook up the Munki image to a data-only container.
Munki is an incredible tool for Mac software deployment, and the setup process is fairly straightfoward - configure a web server, create your repo, run the tools to populate it with software, and configure clients.
Five years ago, it was not uncommon to see many cabinets full of Xserves fulfilling serving roles in the enterprise. Today those servers are on their last legs and warrant replacement by modern hardware and software design.
Munki and Puppet have become very popular tools in the last few years, and make a great team for Mac management. While Puppet is inherently secure due to its use of client-certificate based SSL for all communication, most Munki deployments still run over plaintext HTTP.
On my blog, I have written a 3 page blogpost about virtualizing OS X using vSphere on Mac hardware. In the blogpost I try to answer the below questions: What is required to virtualize OS X? Which hardware is supported, and which hardware works?
For many reasons, you may find yourself needing to start a new Mavericks Open Directory server from scratch. In this article, I'll go over how to import your existing users from an older Open Directory server and import them to your new Mavericks server.
Minecraft is of course a huge thing. It's hugely popular at our school, and has become a valuable educational tool. Minecraft allows structured but almost unrestrained creativity, giving students a change to realize the unlimited nature of their imagination and persistence when building worlds and creating narratives.
If you use ESXi/vSphere, then you may know how handy templates can be for rolling out new services, test boxes and the like. Apparently you can makes templates for vSphere that have never been booted (zero chance of cruft to mess with your testing).
Apple has posted a document highlighting the core technologies of OS X Mavericks, which includes some changes from Mountain Lion. Among the new features is a change to the default file sharing protocol from AFP to SMB2. OS X has long supported SMB, but AFP has remained the default.
One of the issues Mac admins have with OS X's Configuration Profiles system is that using OS X Server to build a Profile allows only subset of the management "scope" that is provided using MCX / Managed Preferences.
