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mass-install tool - Install software to classroom PCs (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by momsi@lemmy.world to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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I thought this was the right place to ask, let me know if somewhere else was better.

I have a classroom in a public school with around 30 PCs (windows) I need to install software on (python and codium). They are all the same PCs. In the past there was a management system but due to some licensing issues that does not work anymore.

How its been done before: Go to each and every PC and setup everything manually, or do it once and mirror the HDD 30 times .... both ways very time consuming.

I thought there might be a better way to do this, do you have any idea?

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[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The tool sets you're looking for fall under a category called IaC (infrastructure as code). They allow you to define environments and add installers and configuration to those environments. Typically they require an extra network-accessable server to act as a controller for the toolset.

My personal go-to at work for exactly what you're asking is Puppet.

Other popular options: Sccm, Chef, Ansible

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've never heard of IAC on Windows desktops. IAC is about consistent building of cloud resources. These are individual physical devices and probably aren't all being flashed and rebuilt with every deployment.