6.6. Summary

Imaging environments often reflect the maturity level of your infrastructure. In the beginning, you may be creating a large image with all of your software and automations included in the image. Over time you'll likely create an image and then move into more of a package-based deployment to supplement the image, perhaps going so far as to move to a bare metal image with full package management layered on top.

In this chapter we looked at creating and deploying images and then creating and deploying packages. We covered the Apple solutions, and we also covered a number of third-party solutions. The amount of page space provided to each solution is not worthy of any single solution, but if your interest was piqued by any solution, we strongly recommend that you get an evaluation or an engineer from the vendor onsite to your organization to fill in the gaps. Additionally, some solutions (namely the Apple solutions and those from JAMF Software) have dedicated training courses with substantially more information than is possible to include in this chapter.