You can and can’t, at least in AWS. For instance, you can’t launch a EC2 to a point you can ssh in less than 8-10 seconds (and it takes a while to get EBS to sync the entire disk from s3).
Many a time I have tried to figure a self scaling EC2 based CI system but could never get everything scaled and warm in less than 45 seconds, which is sucky when you’re waiting on a job to launch. These microvm as a service thingys do solve a problem.
(You could use lambda, but that’s limited in other ways).
Notably, it's a VPN for connecting your own devices together, so unless you're deploying a server elsewhere for access to porn it's probably not for that.
I run into that too. Someone sends me a Postman, and I sit there fiddling with the UI five or ten times instead of just putting it into a loop in a real program. then realize how much time i spent fiddling and pull it into a program, then spend some copying the auth or whatever over, then realize i should've been doing real work.
People like Postman because it's easy to share credentials and config, and easy(ish) to give to less technical people, but the cliff for pulling that stuff into code is often annoying.
"Postman but actually it's a jupyter-style notebook with your credentials" would be cool, although I don't know exactly what that would look like.
Might've had something to do with explaining behavior to their app teams. "Use this new DB product where it's sharded" might be easier than "here's a new postgres endpoint like the old one but now if you join on user ID it's inconsistent".
(not that that's an excuse, but i've seen similar things before)
You're both right - Apple's official zero-touch setup requires MDM + DEP, which needs Apple Business Manager (and yes, a DUNS number).
But for VMs specifically, DEP doesn't work anyway - VMs don't have real serial numbers that can be enrolled in Device Enrollment Program.
VNC-based setup automation is the only practical option - it's what the ecosystem has converged on for macOS VMs. Lume connects to the VM's VNC server and programmatically tabs, clicks, types through Setup Assistant.
I wish the virtualization framework would allow you to simulate your own MDM stuff. Would be very useful for integration testing MDM implementations themselves...
then enforce it by policy across the org, and watch the chaos as people read before speaking.
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