Workbrew - Homebrew for Mac Admins

What are some problems that Mac Admins may have with Homebrew and how Workbrew solves them.

Presented at MacAdmins Scotland 2024 meet-up.

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1. Mike McQuaid, Cofounder and CTO Homebrew for Mac Admins
2. Today Introduction Challenges with Homebrew Solutions from Workbrew Contact Details
3. Introduction Mike McQuaid Cofounder and CTO of Workbrew Project Leader and Maintainer of Homebrew mike@workbrew.com
10. Your “developers” on Macs want to use Homebrew to install their development dependencies. Challenges with Homebrew
11. Your “developers” on Macs want to use Homebrew to install their software. Challenges with Homebrew
12. Your “developers” on Macs want to use Homebrew to upgrade their software. Challenges with Homebrew
13. Your “developers” in CI want to use Homebrew to install their software. Challenges with Homebrew
14. Your business’ compliance requirements make installing/managing Homebrew difficult, time-consuming or impossible. Challenges with Homebrew
15. Your business’ compliance requirements changing based on devs input is difficult, time-consuming or impossible. Challenges with Homebrew
16. Your business’ developers’ requirements making everyone happy seems difficult, time-consuming or impossible. Challenges with Homebrew
17. Homebrew assumes all users are admins, anyone can install anything, upgrade times decided by users. Challenges with Homebrew
18. Regulations assume few users are admins, few can install anything, upgrade times decided by IT. Challenges with Homebrew
19. MDMs assume scripts are run as root, root can do anything, upgrade times are consistent. Challenges with Homebrew
20. Your “developers” on Macs want to use Homebrew to install their software. Challenges with Homebrew
21. Your “developers” on Macs can use Homebrew to install their development dependencies. Solutions with Workbrew
22. Your business’ compliance requirements make installing/managing Homebrew difficult, time-consuming or impossible. Challenges with Homebrew
23. Solutions with Workbrew
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25. You choose: 1) Only Mac/IT Admins can run brew 2) Only specific users run brew 3) All admins can run brew Solutions with Workbrew
26. Homebrew assumes all users are admins, anyone can install anything, upgrade times decided by users. Challenges with Homebrew
27. Workbrew Agent reports Homebrew packages every 15m to Workbrew Console Solutions with Workbrew
28. Solutions with Workbrew
29. Workbrew Console provides all Homebrew information and configuration in one place for IT/Mac Admins/Security Solutions with Workbrew
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35. How can Workbrew (and Homebrew) help you? Question for You
36. https://workbrew.com/events/happy-hour-jnuc-2024
37. Thanks! <3 Mike McQuaid Cofounder and CTO mike@workbrew.com