points by egorfine 4 days ago | 0 comments
Excellent article. Just the battle I'm fighting now in terms of virtualization.
Could you please share how you setup the host Mac? Which pmset settings, defaults, tips and tricks for it?
[–] nichtverstehen 4 days ago
[–] egorfine 4 days ago
MDM is essential, yes.
I'm building a EU Mac mini hosting service. Very early stage, I have just bootstrapped the company.
[–] egorfine 4 days ago
... and I'm slooowly very slowly thinking of creating a "mock Docker".
Think 80% of Dockerfile syntax supported for running "docker build" against macOS guests. I do have some pieces already done here and there and basically it all comes down to actually creating a product out of a pile of various working scripts (OSS obviously). That's the hardest part.
And then comes the final boss of the game: marketing. Not sure anyone needs this at all.
We have all the hosts enrolled into MDM, so we have all sorts of access ready: SSH, KVM, VNC, MDM. With Macs in the DC we found having all these ways to access the machines is really essential. Things break in unexpected ways.
In terms of settings, besides the obvous (do not sleep, do not auto-update, etc), disabling USB restricted mode helps a lot (Privacy&Security > Allow accessories to connect) - no need to approve connected devices via UI.
What are you building if it's not a secret?