Workbrew - Homebrew for Mac Admins

Slide 1

Slide 1 text

Mike McQuaid, Cofounder and CTO Homebrew for Mac Admins

Slide 2

Slide 2 text

Today Introduction Challenges with Homebrew Solutions from Workbrew Contact Details

Slide 3

Slide 3 text

Introduction Mike McQuaid Cofounder and CTO of Workbrew Project Leader and Maintainer of Homebrew mike@workbrew.com

Slide 4

Slide 4 text

No content

Slide 5

Slide 5 text

No content

Slide 6

Slide 6 text

No content

Slide 7

Slide 7 text

No content

Slide 8

Slide 8 text

No content

Slide 9

Slide 9 text

No content

Slide 10

Slide 10 text

Your “developers” on Macs want to use Homebrew to install their development dependencies. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 11

Slide 11 text

Your “developers” on Macs want to use Homebrew to install their software. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 12

Slide 12 text

Your “developers” on Macs want to use Homebrew to upgrade their software. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 13

Slide 13 text

Your “developers” in CI want to use Homebrew to install their software. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 14

Slide 14 text

Your business’ compliance requirements make installing/managing Homebrew difficult, time-consuming or impossible. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 15

Slide 15 text

Your business’ compliance requirements changing based on devs input is difficult, time-consuming or impossible. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 16

Slide 16 text

Your business’ developers’ requirements making everyone happy seems difficult, time-consuming or impossible. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 17

Slide 17 text

Homebrew assumes all users are admins, anyone can install anything, upgrade times decided by users. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 18

Slide 18 text

Regulations assume few users are admins, few can install anything, upgrade times decided by IT. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 19

Slide 19 text

MDMs assume scripts are run as root, root can do anything, upgrade times are consistent. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 20

Slide 20 text

Your “developers” on Macs want to use Homebrew to install their software. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 21

Slide 21 text

Your “developers” on Macs can use Homebrew to install their development dependencies. Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 22

Slide 22 text

Your business’ compliance requirements make installing/managing Homebrew difficult, time-consuming or impossible. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 23

Slide 23 text

Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 24

Slide 24 text

Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 25

Slide 25 text

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

Slide 26

Slide 26 text

Homebrew assumes all users are admins, anyone can install anything, upgrade times decided by users. Challenges with Homebrew

Slide 27

Slide 27 text

Workbrew Agent reports Homebrew packages every 15m to Workbrew Console Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 28

Slide 28 text

Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 29

Slide 29 text

Workbrew Console provides all Homebrew information and configuration in one place for IT/Mac Admins/Security Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 30

Slide 30 text

Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 31

Slide 31 text

Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 32

Slide 32 text

Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 33

Slide 33 text

Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 34

Slide 34 text

Solutions with Workbrew

Slide 35

Slide 35 text

How can Workbrew (and Homebrew) help you? Question for You

Slide 36

Slide 36 text

https://workbrew.com/events/happy-hour-jnuc-2024

Slide 37

Slide 37 text

Thanks! <3 Mike McQuaid Cofounder and CTO mike@workbrew.com