Corporate IT: What do you use to manage Linux laptops for your employees?
5 points by DogRunner 20 hours ago | 1 comments
My current company is managing the employees' laptops, which can either be Windows 11 based or MacOS based devices. We use JAMF, Intune and Empirum (made by Matrix42) to manage and ensure governance over the devices. In my former firms, this was never a problem, as the company trusted their experts to ensure secure usage and proper licensing on their devices, but this is not an option in this scenario.

We would love to offer Linux-based laptops as well and especially the developers and IT technicans would be super happy to have a debians based OS, the IT service teams don't want to hand over these machines without any centralized control/governance.

Do you have any experience or hints how to ensure any kind of centralized managemend / governance / control for a linux based laptop? What you the solutions, your company have chosen?

Thanks

  • bigfatkitten 19 hours ago |
    Puppet. We use it to configure the OS from barebones Kickstart onwards, as well as continuously enforce the various security policies we need to be able to tell people that we comply with.