Today we touch on a brand-new topic: device management! I’m excited to have on stage Zach Wasserman, co-founder and CTO at Fleet.

Fleet is a Mobile device management (MDM) software, that helps you manage your device fleet. It’s fully open-source and works either as self-hosted or as a cloud solution. Zach is going to guide us through the world of fleet management, talking about challenges such as managing vulnerabilities and updating devices.

If you ever worked with a managed device, you’ll be amazed to learn some of the secrets from the device management world!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro


• 00.45 Episode Start


• 01.14 Zac’s Introduction


• 02.04 What is a Fleet?


• 05.57 Fleet vs other MDM tools


• 08.08 Fleet vs chef


• 10.40 Challenges in building MDM software


• 12.21 The journey of a new device


• 15.53 Updating OS version


• 17.50 Integrating with user’s calendar


• 18.55 Incident Stories


• 21.17 Who’s using Fleet?


• 23.15 Self-hosting vs cloud


• 24.14 Handling malwares


• 26.25 The history of Fleet


• 30.12 Introducing osquery


• 31.48 Being part of the Linux Foundation


• 34.56 Being part of a steering commitee of a an OSS project


• 37.04 What’s next for Fleet?


• 39.17 Provisioning Vision Pros


• 40.03 Integrating AI?


• 41.12 Further reading


• 42.46 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• fleetdm/fleet on GitHub


• Fleet Official Website


• Open Source GitOps for Detection Engineering - Video from BSides Las Vegas 2023


• Collect First, Ask Questions Later - Video from GopherCon 2022


• @zwass on GitHub


• @thezachw on Twitter


• Zach Wasserman on LinkedIn

Show links

• Podcast Website


• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify


• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts


• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts


• @thebakerydev on Twitter


• @cortinico on Twitter