Tag: bootstrap
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Minimal bootstrapping with Munki
If you are using Munki to manage your Mac fleet’s software installs, you may want to leverage bootstrapping, wherein Munki, at the login window, keeps installing items, rebooting as necessary, installing more items, and rebooting more if necessary… until all the items are installed. If your infrastructure for this is sophisticated, you may already be…
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Anatomy of a no-image workflow
For some background on what a no-image approach to deployment is and its benefits, read Thick imaging, thin imaging, and no imaging macOS and “BUILDING” 2015 MACS. I tried a few approaches to no-imaging never-booted Macs, and I’m presenting here a way that worked for me, but you may very well have success with the…
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AutoDMG / Outset / Munki bootstrap workflow
Update December, 2018: Because of the changes that came with Apple’s T2 chips, I wouldn’t recommend the below workflow any more. Instead, I’d recommend a DEP=>MDM=>Munki workflow instead. I wanted to create a workflow that involved pretty much just imaging a new machine with a thin image and then having the image itself pull updates.…