Yet it's very much what SuSE has been doing with YaST modules for years. Need an NTP server? click. Want to play around with NIS? click. Kerberos? Click.
Indeed, and Red Hat may have taken it a step farther (I'm not familiar enough with SuSe to know whether it's actually different) by providing different entitlements, which are really just repo subscriptions. Want access to the advanced server stuff, not the standard workstation utils, purchase that entitlement and you'll have new packages available to you. Install, use their configuration utilities, etc.
Woah. This seems highly relevant to me. I might actually be able to manage all the macs, ipads, and iphones running around my house in a more centralized way? It seems worth 20 bucks just to find out.
Can it help manage my current home media server, a headless 2003 Dell running SuSE?
The most interesting feature for me is the XCode Server + Bots.
I'm still trying to figure out how to use it. I've installed it, added a git-repo, created a Bot, but it does nothing. Also, I don't know how to tell it to do "pod install"[1] before attempting to build the app.
Unfortunately—unless I missed a change in the release notes since Bots was introduced at WWDC—there isn't built in support for something like `pod install`, though there's probably a hack someone's figured out. See Michele Titolo's open radar here http://openradar.appspot.com/14221477
Jenkins is going to have alot more functionality, especially with 3rd party integrations and doing arbitrary work. Jenkins is also an ugly mess than can be painful to setup, especially since most iOS/Mac developers build from Xcode and not the command line. OS X Server gets some ease of use out of only doing running standard Tests, static analysis, and building your project for distribution (they bragged about 1-click downloads from their Bots website to people in your company, but I haven't tried that). Bots integrates with Xcode to give you a nice rundown of how tests ran on multiple devices and OSes.
I just wish I had a way to run my XCode builds in a VM locally (i.e. not paying a remote entity for the privilege) .. does anyone know if OS X Server can be run in Parallels or VMWare or some such thing?
OS X (since Lion) includes a license to run a virtual copy (well, 2 I think). I can't say that I've run the Server app component in a VM but I don't know of any reason why it wouldn't work, it's essentially just an app that runs under OS X in the first place.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 38.0 ms ] threadInteresting features are "profile manager", which sounds like an LDAP server and the Mail/Calendar server to replicate Exchange functionality.
Can it help manage my current home media server, a headless 2003 Dell running SuSE?
I'm still trying to figure out how to use it. I've installed it, added a git-repo, created a Bot, but it does nothing. Also, I don't know how to tell it to do "pod install"[1] before attempting to build the app.
1. http://docs.cocoapods.org/guides/installing_cocoapods.html
I just want to see Bots work and what is has to offer that my already existing Jenkins CI environment doesn't.
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos/
Jenkins is going to have alot more functionality, especially with 3rd party integrations and doing arbitrary work. Jenkins is also an ugly mess than can be painful to setup, especially since most iOS/Mac developers build from Xcode and not the command line. OS X Server gets some ease of use out of only doing running standard Tests, static analysis, and building your project for distribution (they bragged about 1-click downloads from their Bots website to people in your company, but I haven't tried that). Bots integrates with Xcode to give you a nice rundown of how tests ran on multiple devices and OSes.