Authors of numerous articles and videos have covered all the bells and whistles built into iOS 13, the latest major iteration of Apple’s mobile operating system. Rather than diving into all of these perks, though, I will focus on the changes for app developers. As it often happens, Apple introduced many proprietary applications that successfully […]
DevOps Chat: Managing Apple Devices with Fleetsmith
Managing Macs, iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices at scale is not something really native to iOS or OSX. Enter Fleetsmith. In sort of a Puppet-meets-Apple environment, the Fleetsmith team automates configuration, management and security of your Apple devices. In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Fleetsmith co-founder and CEO Zack Blum and company […]
When Automation Predictions Come To Be: Transportation as a Service
Back in December of 2016 I wrote an article for staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud titled, “What Do We Do When Everything is Automated?” in which I made a prediction: Also, think about this: As Uber and Lyft mature in the business landscape and self-driving cars become commonplace, the ride-share companies will replace human-driven vehicles with self-driving vehicles. Then, […]
Fleetsmith Pulls Apple into DevOps Orbit
For too long now Apple Macintosh systems have been the proverbial red-headed stepchild of DevOps. There are a lot of ways to incorporate Windows systems automatically into a larger DevOps pipeline, but Macintosh systems generally require a lot of manual intervention. As part of a larger effort to automate application deployments across Apple systems, Fleetsmith […]