Partnering with Jamf Pro and Amazon Web Services

Presentation from JNUC 2018, the world's largest rally of Apple IT administrators.

Session:
Partnering with Jamf Pro and Amazon Web Services

Presented by:
Benjamin Marks, Salesforce
Nick Tenbrink, Jamf

View all session slides, recordings and more at https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2018/.

Transcript

2. © JAMF Software, LLC Ben Marks Client Engineer Salesforce.com Oversaw growth from 3,500 to 35,000 Macs over 5 years Nick Tenbrink DevOps Manager Jamf Twitter: @nick_tenbrink
3. © JAMF Software, LLC What is Amazon Web Services? “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow.”
4. © JAMF Software, LLC Terminology • Instance = Virtual Machine or Server • Security Group = Firewall or Port Opening/Closing • ElastiCache = Caching Server or memcached • VPC = Virtual Private Cloud, network settings
5. © JAMF Software, LLC Services Needed to Run a Jamf Server • EC2, Elastic Cloud Compute Service • Accessible VM, multiple OS’s (including your own) • RDS, Relational Database Service • Stripped down instance, optimized for databases • ELB, Elastic Load Balancer
6. © JAMF Software, LLC • ElastiCache, stripped down caching server instance • S3, Simple Storage Service • For hosting a cloud distribution point • CloudFront • When used with S3, mirrors storage globally Services Needed to Run a Jamf Server
7. © JAMF Software, LLC EC2 Setup Basics • Walkthrough of EC2 settings on AWS website
8. © JAMF Software, LLC RDS Setup Basics • Walkthrough of RDS settings on AWS website
9. © JAMF Software, LLC ELB Setup Basics • Walkthrough of ELB settings on AWS website
10. © JAMF Software, LLC ElastiCache Setup Basics • Walkthrough of ElastiCache settings on AWS website
11. © JAMF Software, LLC S3 and CloudFront Setup Basics • Walkthrough of S3 settings on AWS website • S3 as master • Walkthrough of CloudFront Settings on AWS website
12. © JAMF Software, LLC Caveats • Connectivity back to your datacenter/local network • Directory services/LDAP • Syncing with legacy imaging servers • DNS
13. © JAMF Software, LLC Miscellaneous • Amazon SSL certificates • Amazon DNS • AWS On-Demand vs Reserved vs Spot • Prices and cost calculator
14. © JAMF Software, LLC Questions?
15. © JAMF Software, LL THANK YOU!