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Status: Archived

This repository has been archived and is no longer maintained.

Simian has served Google well for many years, so we’d love to see development continue with someone else as maintainer. If you’re interested in taking Simian over, please fork the project.

Overview

Note 1: OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 support dropped (22 April 2016)

Note 2: Simian now supports Munki2 categories!

Simian is an enterprise-class Mac OS X software deployment solution hosted on Google App Engine (why App Engine?). It scales to any enterprise fleet size automatically, and offers a future proof client extended from the active Munki open-source project.

Because the Simian server is live code, not a static file server, it offers unique benefits over a typical Munki+Apache deployment:

In summary, Simian's feature set allows it to:

Much of this and more is due to the outstanding work of Greg Neagle and the Munki community. To read more about the other features Munki offers please visit the Munki on GitHub.

Getting Started

Please refer to the Wiki documentation for instructions on how to download, configure, build, and deploy Simian.

For screenshots and an overview of Simian features, please see the SimianAtAGlance wiki.

License

The work done under Simian has been licensed under Apache License 2.0. The license file can be found here. You can find out more about the license, at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Contact

If you have any issue or question which isn't covered in the Wiki documentation, we recommend you search and then post to the simian-discuss@googlegroups.com Google Group.

If your question is sensitive in nature, feel free to reach direct to the engineering team at simian-eng@googlegroups.com.

Finally, if you'd like to stay aware of future Simian news, please subscribe to simian-announce@googlegroups.com Google Group