Fleet with Zach Wasserman

The Developers' Bakery

Today we touch on a brand-new topic: device management! I’m excited to have on stage Zach Wasserman, co-founder and CTO at Fleet.

Fleet is a Mobile device management (MDM) software, that helps you manage your device fleet. It’s fully open-source and works either as self-hosted or as a cloud solution. Zach is going to guide us through the world of fleet management, talking about challenges such as managing vulnerabilities and updating devices.

If you ever worked with a managed device, you’ll be amazed to learn some of the secrets from the device management world!

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.45 Episode Start
• 01.14 Zac’s Introduction
• 02.04 What is a Fleet?
• 05.57 Fleet vs other MDM tools
• 08.08 Fleet vs chef
• 10.40 Challenges in building MDM software
• 12.21 The journey of a new device
• 15.53 Updating OS version
• 17.50 Integrating with user’s calendar
• 18.55 Incident Stories
• 21.17 Who’s using Fleet?
• 23.15 Self-hosting vs cloud
• 24.14 Handling malwares
• 26.25 The history of Fleet
• 30.12 Introducing osquery
• 31.48 Being part of the Linux Foundation
• 34.56 Being part of a steering commitee of a an OSS project
• 37.04 What’s next for Fleet?
• 39.17 Provisioning Vision Pros
• 40.03 Integrating AI?
• 41.12 Further reading
• 42.46 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• fleetdm/fleet on GitHub
• Fleet Official Website
• Open Source GitOps for Detection Engineering - Video from BSides Las Vegas 2023
• Collect First, Ask Questions Later - Video from GopherCon 2022
• @zwass on GitHub
• @thezachw on Twitter
• Zach Wasserman on LinkedIn

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter