Simplifying IT Management with Declarative Approaches

Today’s episode with Henry & Eric from Zentral looks at what this means in practice and how modern code management tools common in GitOps and infrastructure as code are helping shape an emerging modern device management approach.

• Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
• Charles Edge - @cedge318

Guests:

• Henry Stamerjohann - LinkedIn
• Éric Falconnier - LinkedIn

Links:

• Episode 170: Identity Crisis with Henry Stamerjohann – Mac Admins Podcast

• Episode 23: Live at Mac AD UK with Henry Stamerjohann, Éric Falconnier and Richard Purves

• Henry’s Talk at MacDevOps YVR: MDOYVR23 - Henry Stamerjohann - Device Management at Scale with Terraform

• Peek preview Zentral MDM (identity + DDM) at MacDevOps YVR 2021: MDOYVR21 - Henry Stamerjohann - Zentral (Demo Day)

• Terraform && Zentral:
  • Terraform: Beyond the Basics with AWS | AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog
  • Docs overview | zentralopensource/zentral | Terraform
  • GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral
  • https://github.com/zentralopensource/circleci-zentral-osquery-example
  • GitHub - zentralopensource/zentral-santa-rulesets-pipeline

• Use OIDC as a provider for AWS: Configuring OpenID Connect in Amazon Web Services - GitHub Docs

• Zentral - website
  • Henry Stamerjohann, LinkedIn
  • Éric Falconnier, LinkedIn

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