Description
Client Platform Engineers, device administrators, and others charged with managing large fleets of devices need to be able to wield open-source tools, conform them to their unique use cases, and get them on devices securely. This has traditionally been done with other languages, some of which have evolved since the early days of Unix - the early days of the very idea of an operating system. But the increasingly closed nature of Apple devices means that these skills need to move to Swift, and all the good and bad that comes with that.
This book is about how to build Swift applications that automate tasks on Apple devices. Things like pulling information down from a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution to configure settings, deliver apps to devices, and gain telemetry into areas of the system that might not otherwise be available to legacy scripting tools that can't get entitlements to manage various aspects of systems. Traditional Swift books don't cover these scripty automation tasks, or how to build software that can't go on the App Store. Yet that's exactly what admins need to do. We want to make the world a more secure place, and this is one of the ways we get there.
What You'll Learn
- How to wield Swift for secure device automation tasks.
- How to convert your code into compiled scripts.
- How to build functional programs for device inventory.
- How to integrate with enterprise systems for seamless operation.
- How to master Mobile Device Management (MDM) with Swift.
Who This Book Is For
This book is for client platform engineers, device administrators, and anyone managing large fleets of Apple devices.
Chapter 1: SwiftUI.- Chapter 2: Variables, Constants, and Data Types.- Chapter 3: Control Flow and Conditionals.- Chapter 4: Collections and Arrays.- Chapter 5: Dictionaries and Sets.- Chapter 6: Functions and Closures.- Chapter 7: Object-Oriented Programming.- Chapter 8: Optionals and Error Handling.- Chapter 9: Structs, Enums, and Protocols.
Charles Edge is the CTO of bootstrappers.mn and the CTO/COO of secretchest.io - and a former director at Jamf, where he led the development of Jamf Now. He holds 35 years of experience as a developer, administrator, architect, product manager, entrepreneur, and CTO. He is the author of 25 books and more than 6,000 blog posts on technology, and has served as an editor and author for a number of publications. Charles also serves on the board of directors for a number of companies and non-profits, and frequently speaks at conferences including DefCon, BlackHat, LinuxWorld, the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, and a number of Apple-focused conferences. Charles is also the author of krypted.com and a cofounder/host of the MacAdmins Podcast and The History Of Computing podcast.
