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I Built an Open-Source Endpoint Manager Because Enterprise Tools Are Ridiculous
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I Built an Open-Source Endpoint Manager Because Enterprise Tools Are Ridiculous

via Dev.toBenedikt Schackenberg1mo ago

Let me start with a confession: I have too many computers. Three Windows Servers, a handful of workstations, a Linux box running... stuff. You know how it goes. One day you're setting up a home lab, next thing you know you're managing a small fleet and wondering which machine has that outdated Log4j version. Commercial endpoint management tools exist, sure. But have you seen the pricing? We're talking $10-15 per endpoint per month for the basics. PDQ Deploy wants $500/year minimum. Microsoft Intune is... well, it's Microsoft. And don't get me started on trying to self-host SCCM. So I did what any reasonable developer does when faced with expensive software: I built my own. Meet Octofleet Octofleet is an open-source endpoint management platform. It's what I wished existed when I started looking for solutions: simple to deploy, actually useful, and doesn't require a finance department to approve. Fair warning: This is still beta software. I'm running it in production on my own infrastruc

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