MacSysAdmin Presentation - 07 October 2021 - AutoPkg Everything

Today, 07 October 2021, I am proud to be presenting at the MacSysAdmin Online Conference, on AutoPkg Everything - How ETH Zürich extends the AutoPkg framework beyond uploading packages.

This post contains links to everything that was presented that is publicly available.

Video and Slides

A PDF containing all slides (with transitions) and presenter notes is available here

The video is available via this link (direct link).

Jamf Policy Design

• How many Jamf Pro Policies does each application need? - blog post by Graham.

Processors

JamfUploader

• JamfUploader - new AutoPkg processors for importing packages to Jamf Pro - blog post by Graham.
• Integrating AutoPkg and Jamf Pro - blog post by Anthony Reimer.
• Making package uploading and deployment easier with JamfUploader - JNUC 2021 presentation by Anthony Reimer and Graham Pugh.
• JamfUploader - a suite of shared AutoPkg processors for uploading packages and API objects to Jamf Pro. - note: includes JamfPolicyDeleter and JamfUploadSlacker.

VersionRegexGenerator

• Better Jamf Policy Version Control with AutoPkg and Regex - VersionRegexGenerator - blog post by Graham.
• VersionRegexGenerator

JSSImporter

• JSSImporter - a side-loaded custom AutoPkg processor for uploading packages and API objects to Jamf Pro.
• Jamf and AutoPkg - JNUC 2019 presentation by Graham.
• JSSImporter 1.0.2b3 puts the brakes on

Others

• JSSRecipeReceiptChecker
• LastRecipeRunResult
• LastRecipeRunChecker
• JamfUploadSharepointUpdater
• JamfUploadSharepointStageCheck
• LocalRepoUpdateChecker
• InternalUpdateChecker
• SMBMounter
• SMBUnmounter

Example recipes

• eth-its/autopkg_mac_recipes_yaml - Contains all ETH’s Testing (.jamf), Nodes (-nodes.jamf), Production (-prod.jamf) and Uninstaller (-uninstall.jamf) recipes.
• autopkg/grahampugh-recipes - Jamf_Recipes - some .jamf recipe examples that are closer to the older JSS recipe standard.

Scheduling AutoPkg

• A beginner’s guide to using AutoPkg with GitLab Runner - blog post by Graham.
• GitLab Runner
• GitHub Actions
• AutoPkgr - A native macOS app which can be used to interact with AutoPkg, including a scheduler.
• AutoPkg-Conductor - a script for managing autopkg runs by @rtrouton.

AutoPkg for Windows

These links refer to my colleague Nick Heim’s work in forking AutoPkg for Windows.

• AutoPkg for Windows
• Windows recipes
• Processors for Windows

Other useful resources

• AutoPkg - a framework for deploying packages.
• AutoPkg 2020 - MacSysAdmin presentation by Greg Neagle
• Writing AutoPkg Recipes - EveryWorld workshop by Anthony Reimer
• jss_helper - an API tool for promoting packages uploaded via JSSImporter from testing to production. Requires AutoPkg, JSSImporter and python-jss to be installed. Note that I mis-spoke in the presentation and called this “Jamf Helper”.