Device Management for the Linux Desktop: The Gap We Close Ourselves

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Name a platform, and I’ll name its device management. Windows? Microsoft Intune — and before it, SCCM, now called MECM, which nobody pronounces with confidence. macOS? Jamf — so taken for granted that Mac admins couldn’t act otherwise if they tried. iPhones and iPads? MobileIron, MaaS360, Workspace ONE — a whole zoo of MDM suites, all speaking the same Apple protocol. ChromeOS? The Google Admin console, elegant to the point of dullness. Android? No trouble at all — every Knox fleet, every carrier plan ships with management baked in.

Ansible, or: The End of Hand-Crafted IT

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is a moment every administrator knows, after enough years in the job.

Friday evening. A server has to be rebuilt — yesterday. You remember most of the settings. The most important paths. The configuration that lives somewhere in a wiki nobody maintains anymore. And that one option you set eight months ago so the thing would finally run.

You start. Type. Check. Correct. And at some point you realise: this server resembles none of the others. It grew — it was never built.

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Device Management for the Linux Desktop: The Gap We Close Ourselves

Ansible, or: The End of Hand-Crafted IT