{"id":69,"date":"2019-01-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-08-07T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T04:00:13","slug":"basicrequirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/basicrequirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic requirements for Munki"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Knowledge Requirements<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You should have at least a basic understanding of IP addresses and domain names, and the ability to assign a static IP to a computer\/server, give a computer\/server a proper fully qualified domain name that internal or external DNS can recognize, or do both.<\/li>\n<li>You should be able to double-click-install a .pkg on a Mac.<\/li>\n<li>If you have never maintained a web server before, you have some sense of the idea of a computer serving up files for other computers to view or download, and the importance of securing it with https (either with a self-signed or proper Certificate Authority\u2013issued certificate).<\/li>\n<li>Even though there are graphical (point-and-click) ways to manage Munki, in order to fully understand what you&#8217;re doing, it&#8217;s best to learn some things via the command-line. So even if you don&#8217;t know a lot of terminal commands, being comfortable copying and pasting or re-typing some commands into the terminal will be critical to the learning experience. You don&#8217;t have to have these commands memorized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Hardware Requirements<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>At least one web server (or a Mac that can act as one). That can be a server in the cloud (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform) or one you host locally (e.g., Linux VM, IIS on a Windows server). If you don&#8217;t have any of those things, you can even just use a Mac Mini. Since the Mac Mini would be the lowest common denominator (the only thing we can assume you have if you&#8217;re doing Mac management would be at least two Macs, and one of those can be the web server you host the Munki repo on).<\/li>\n<li>A working Internet connection. Your client Macs will be downloading files from the web server that hosts the Munki repo. Even if you don&#8217;t have a great external connection, the Macs should at least be able to reach an internal server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge Requirements You should have at least a basic understanding of IP addresses and domain names, and the ability to assign a static IP to a computer\/server, give a computer\/server a proper fully qualified domain name that internal or external DNS can recognize, or do both. You should be able to double-click-install a .pkg on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paDrAJ-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alansiu.net\/munkiguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}