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D. SmithApple macOS and iOS System Administrationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5820-0_10

10. Automated macOS Application Deployment Using Munki

Drew Smith1 
(1)
Cincinnati, OH, USA
 

In this chapter, we are going to be working with an open source solution called Munki from Walt Disney Animation Studios (www.munki.org). Munki is a simple, effective, and freely available software deployment solution for managing Macs in medium and large organizations.

Introduction

Munki was written in Python and runs as an application on your Mac clients. At its most basic level, the client software checks into a specified web server every hour to see if anything has changed. Then it syncs, downloads, and installs software packages. This allows one ...

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