Introduction to Fleet Commander at DevConf.cz 2017

1. Introduction to Fleet Commander
DevConf.cz 2017
Oliver Gutierrez

2. Large workstation
deployments
A hell for the sysadmins
Main tasks:
Deploy software on machines and con gure them
Deploy user con guration and personal les

3. Deploying machines
Con guration management systems
Ansible
Chef
Puppet
...

4. Deploying pro les
APOC (2006)
Sabayon (2007)
??? (usually custom made scripts)

5. Fleet Commander
Our aim
Easy to manage pro les
Easy to add settings to that pro les
Easy to deploy that pro les to the network
Transparent experience for the nal user

6. Easy to manage pro les
Graphic session for software con guration
(SPICE, Libvirt, SSH)
Web forms for specifying special con gurations

7. Easy to deploy
Minimal software installation on client machines
for applying con guration at login time
Minimal con guration on client machines to
retrieve pro le data and apply it

8. Fleet Commander
components
Fleet Commander Admin
Fleet Commander Logger
Fleet Commander Client

9. Fleet Commander Admin
Pro le management
Web based (Cockpit plugin)
dbus service as backend

10. Fleet Commander Logger
Logs con guration changes during Live Sessions
Transfer that changes to Fleet Commander Admin
for reviewing
Only needed in template virtual machines
Only activates in Fleet Commander live sessions

11. Fleet Commander Client
Downloads pro les from pro le server (This will
change with FreeIPA integration)
Compiles all pro les that applies to user at login
time
Applies the con guration

12. Supported settings
Web interface
Gnome Software highlighted applications
Gnome Online Accounts (In progress)
Live Session
GSettings based Applications
LibreOf ce
Network manager (precon guration of VPN,
WiFi...)

13. Future releases
In progress integration with FreeIPA
Enhancements in UI and UX

14. Demo

15. Project information
Source code at GitHub:
https://github.com/ eet-commander/
GNOME Wiki documentation
http://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/FleetCommander
Contact me
ogutierrez (at) redhat (dot) com

16. THANK YOU