AutoPkg: Crowd-sourcing Mac packaging and deployment

Thanks to everyone who attended Greg’s and my talk today at MacSysAdmin 2014 in Göteborg! Again, I give my sincere thanks to Tycho and all those who organize the fantastic MacSysAdmin conference every year. I’m honoured to be among such great company, speakers and attendees.

Here are the links for resources that were mentioned in the slides:

AutoPkg:

• AutoPkg home page
• AutoPkg Wiki documentation
• AutoPkg ‘recipes’ repo

Getting support:

• AutoPkg Google Group
• irc.freenode.net: ##osx-server

Other tools:

• AppStoreApp recipes by Nick McSpadden
• AutoPkg Change Notifications by Sean Kaiser
• AutoPkgr by The Linde Group

Work by Shea Craig:

• Shea’s fork of the JSSImporter AutoPkg processor
• JSS AutoPkg recipes for use with the above
• python-jss module, a JSS API wrapper

AutoPkg integration for other software management systems:

• Absolute Manage, by Tom Burgin
• IBM Endpoint Manager (/TEM/BigFix), by Matt Hansen

Previous video sessions by Greg:

• Managing Updates - The Next Level (MacSysAdmin 2013)
• You Oughta Check Out AutoPkg (PSUMAC 2014)

Articles on AutoPkg in MacTech Magazine, print and iPad:

• Issues October, November 2013 (intros to AutoPkg)
• Issues 2014.342, 2014.343 (writing custom Processors)

Using Charles Web Proxy to figure out the built-in updaters in Mac apps:

• A tour of Charles, your HTTP(S) Swiss Army knife

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