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fleetdm / fleet

fleet

Open device management

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19Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
7.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

Open device management

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

Disclaimer: I'm the CTO One of my favorite things about this is that we are bringing a GitOps workflow to IT teams. As a software engineer myself, seeing change management and…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-10-08 00:01:44 UTC to 2026-09-25 17:14:04 UTC.

02462021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Fleet | Remote (Worldwide, Americas Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote | https://fleetdm.com Fleet is building an open future for device management. Open APIs you can use from anywhere. Transparency for end-users. Trust built on an open-core foundation. We are looking for an Engineering Manager on our Agent team. This position will be responsible for managing the engineers and strategy for: - Osquery across Windows, macOS, and Linux. - Fleet's agent update system based on The Update Framework. - Fleet Desktop (Desktop application for user notifications and self-remediation). - MDM features. Join our team of friendly and competent engineers to expand our 100% source-available (github.com/fleetdm/fleet) endpoint management product. We work closely with the osquery community, and have both paying customers and open-source users from organization
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s you’ve heard of. We’re backed by CRV and Sid Sijbrandij (CEO of GitLab). This role will report directly to me (CTO), please reach out with any questions: zach[at]fleetdm.com
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
Fleet | Remote (Worldwide, Americas Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote | https://fleetdm.com Fleet is building an open future for device management. Open APIs you can use from anywhere. Transparency for end-users. Trust built on an open-core foundation. Join our team of friendly and competent developers to expand our 100% source-available (github.com/fleetdm/fleet) endpoint management product. We work closely with the osquery community, and have both paying customers and open-source users from organizations you’ve heard of. We’re backed by the CEOs of GitLab, Figma, Panther, and Vanta, and just raised a $20M Series A from CRV. We are looking for Go, C++, and Solutions engineers across a few different roles. See our hiring site (https://fleetdm.com/jobs) for job descriptions and compensation details.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
Fleet source code is available at https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet. Technically, we're "100% source available open core" with a hybrid MIT/proprietary license that we adapted from GitLab. This GitLab connection is no coincidence, as Sid Sijbrandij (CEO of GitLab) was our founding investor and continues to advise us. We've also "open sourced" our company internals: https://fleetdm.com/handbook/ I'm the CTO, AMA.
In Fleet raises Series A at a $100m valuation for open source device management
Fleet | Remote (Worldwide, Americas Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote | https://fleetdm.com Fleet is building an open future for device management. Open APIs you can use from anywhere. Transparency for end-users. Trust built on an open-core foundation. Join our team of friendly and competent developers to expand our 100% source-available (github.com/fleetdm/fleet) endpoint management product. We work closely with the osquery community, and have both paying customers and open-source users from organizations you’ve heard of. We’re backed by Sid Sijbrandij (CEO of GitLab) and are learning from GitLab’s open-core business model. We are looking for Go and C++ engineers across a few different roles. See our hiring site (https://fleetdm.com/jobs) for job descriptions and compensation details.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)

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