Managing WAPT with an all‑in‑one package

Hi — it’s been a while! Today, a WAPT post 🙂

I’d like to manage WAPT in a different way. Let’s forget the console for 30 seconds and create a WAPT package that installs… WAPT packages.

Before WAPT I used WPKG, and what I liked was managing packages based on workstation names.

We can do the same with WAPT. The idea is: - Install on all machines a WAPT package named tis-all-in-on-package - In that package, define which WAPT packages should be installed/removed/ignored, based on different tests

I built an example package here: https://wapt.lesfourmisduweb.org/tous-les-packages?recherche=smp-all-in-one-package

It includes several examples you can reuse.

This lets you go as far as Python allows in the decision logic. When you manage a large fleet, it’s very convenient: one single WAPT package drives the whole fleet.

I know some of you want to manage software based on AD OUs — with this approach, it could be possible 😉