Category: Tips

FleetDM automatically set labels and groups with Mosyle MDM

*Please note- FleetDM has a paid option called ‘Teams’ which does a vaguely similar thing. This is not an attempt to get around a paywall, we’re still evaluating FleetDM and so far it’s been pretty awesome. If you actually want the ‘Teams’ functionality, get out your credit card!   FleetDM is pretty amazing but it doesn’t handle ‘groups’ out of

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FleetDM and OSQuery on Ubuntu with Lego and LetsEncrypt

We’ve had some major issues running Munkireport recently, and while switching platforms mid ride is generally a really bad idea, I just wanted *something* to work and I had always wanted to try FleetDM, so… I still love Munkireport and it’s beautiful graphing and helpful community. But my analytics engine uses SQL queries, and so does FleetDM, as it adds

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State of The Mac 2022- Updated June 2022

If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly from Apple Australia MacBook Pro 13 inch models Models Updated June 2022- now with M2 chip! Entry- M2, 8 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 256GB SSD $1999 Nice machine, but I’d still

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Building a Mac Installer for Gravitl Netclient

To make an installer that will work on a Mac, there’s a LOT of requirements. But to make sure the project succeeds into the future we need to do all of this to make the project useful for ‘normal’ people. This means it has to be easy to install, uninstall, get working and stay working! You will need- 1. a

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Mac Deployment AirPrint EFI E100 Printer with Mosyle

Well, the Foigus Autopkg driver I ‘built‘ in 2019 using this article finally stopped working in macOS Monterey. And I wasn’t sure the same process would work or be very durable this time around… After asking around (and thanks to Foigus for answering my questions) I thought I’d try something new, and it worked, so here is the method… Here’s

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State of The Mac 2022- Updated Feb 2022

If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly from Apple Australia MacBook Pro 13 inch models Models Updated November 2020- now with M1 chip! Entry level- M1, 8 core CPU, 8 core GPU, 256GB SSD $1899 Nice machine, but I’d

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Slack Nebula Secure Mesh on Synology

**Warning- this post isn’t finished, I’m posting it so I can get help!   Synology install Instructions here https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/pull/357/files/7d4b460d1a1054c2eeab53b14d9c648baaf7bd5f Grab the shell script, modify it to your requirements – Script requires you to set the location of both .pid and log files. Shouldn’t have been difficult but it took me ages to figure out ok on my Intel based Synology

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Slack Nebula Secure Mesh on Docker

**Warning this post isn’t finished! there’s also another project to consider now at https://github.com/elestio/nebula-rest-api From a look at the GitHub issues, it seems that there’s problems getting Slack’s Nebula open source project to run in an Alpine Docker image. But just recently, someone has packaged up, apparently with a new base image. So I downloaded it, and deployed it on

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Signing and Notarising a Mac binary written in Go

This post is heavily ‘borrowed’ from this post on Stack Overflow- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64652704/how-to-notarize-an-macos-command-line-tool-created-outside-of-xcode And I’ve also liberally borrowed from this script, with many thanks to Armin Briegel. In fact, the way things turned out I could have just used that script, because what I needed was to sign and notarise a command line tool, and that’s exactly the contents of that post.

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Wireguard and Netmaker on Synology

This post is meant for people who already have Netmaker server set up- something that is covered pretty well in the documentation and also on Youtube. If you want to add an Intel based Synology device to your existing Netmaker network with Netclient, read on! First install Wireguard There are some prebuilt binaries here, but not for DSM 7. I

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