Many of the people that read my articles undoubtedly arleady know this, but Apple has announced a sharp reduction in the number of services provided. Per this article, the Calendar, Contacts, DHCP, DNS, Mail, Messages, NetInstall, VPN, Websites, and Wiki services are being deprecated and Apple has provided a few services, per service, that they recommend moving to. Those services, per the above article, include the following:
Calendar
- Calendar and Contacts Server
- DavMail
- Radicale
Contacts
- Calendar and Contacts Server
- DavMail
- Citadel
DHCP
- Kea
- Dnsmasq
- FreeRADIUS
DNS
- BIND
- Unbound
- KnotDNS
- KerioConnect
- dovecot/Postfix
- Courier
Messages
- ejabberd
- Openfire
- Prosody
NetInstall
- NetSUS
- BSDPy
VPN
- OpenVPN
- SoftEther VPN
- Tcpcrypt
Websites
- Apache HTTP Server
- Nginx
- Lighttpd
Wiki
- MediaWiki
- PmWiki
- XWiki
Having said that, every time I think that a service should go away, I hear from someone that they rely on that service. Most of this feedback comes from consultants who have made the server a central part of their consultancy. As someone who used to plan services as products for customers in consultancies, if you find yourself in similar situations when planning where services go when Apple retires them, I would strongly recommend looking at SaaS solutions where customers can give you a login and you can help guide them into a new and better solution. At least, that’s the way I positioned most of these services in the last version of the macOS Server book…
Yes, it was great having Apple handle all of the patching and customers were able to take advantage of a lot of technology with very few resources. However, that’s just not where we are any more. And rather than argue about it or try emailing Tim Cook or make petitions or even complain, save your cycles and look for new and better replacements for each service (preferably not ones that require physical servers, provided that customers are okay with that)!
And stay tuned. I suspect we’ll cover this on an upcoming episode of the Mac Admins Podcast!
What are your thoughts? Remorse? Applause?
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