Centralised Linux Device/Desktop Management/Fleet Management solution

[Karthik R]

Hi All

Hope all are fine

I thought of asking about Centralised Linux Device/Desktop Management/Linux Fleet solution

they say like Linux Endpoint management/Fleet

Challenge is about managing about 300+ devices

Developers are running multiple Linux Flavours

Mostly/half of the users are using Ubuntu Desktop
Followed by considerable amount of Arch Linux
Debian
Fedora

I am planning to try Canonical Landscape Management POC and check how it does

Or in the worst case, having some Puppet recipes to manage the Linux fleet

Mostly I need to ensure the security guidelines/baselines for these Linux fleet and remote management/patch management to make the laptops security compliant

Please any suggestions/comments are welcome here ?

Anyone tried any other solutions/similar solutions/thoughts are really appreciable

Thanks

Karthik

[Jeremiah Garmatter]

Hi Karthik,

I know this question is a little old at this point but thought I'd mention SaltStack or Salt Project as they seem to go by now.

You install an agent "salt-minion" on each machine and have a head "salt-master" server. Then you use YAML documents to configure the state you'd like each machine to be in. Machines can be grouped by "Salt-Grains" which are bits of info related to each machine that the salt-minion returns to the master. You could organize by OS and OS version and use salt to download latest patches or run scripts or just report on each machine.

Here's a link to the project home: https://saltproject.io/

Here's the link to the documentation:  https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/