alt Hacker News> An org can now transition everything to Linux locally, and only be left with these fully functional blockers.
What are the equivalents of Active Directory and the likes of Group Policy? I've seen some compatible/similar tools (like FreeIPA), but they don't seem very popular.
Edit: that’s not a gotcha question or something, I’m genuinely curious about the experiences of people who’ve done deployments like that. I also remember trying to setup Samba to allow some Windows PCs to access storage shares on a Linux box and nothing wanted to work with no obvious error messages. Oh and I have no love for the likes of Kerberos either.
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There are no equivalents that encompass the technologies and ease of deployment and management for on-prem.
Samba works just fine as a file server. I'm sure there's some intuitive GUI out there (like Synology's) that makes it easy to set up as a file server only. Not sure about a DC.
But even Microsoft wants you to move to Azure AD + InTune. Arguably more secure and flexible.
I haven't done it, but Ansible would be the equivalent to group policies, no? The learning curve is very different though.
You can use Samba and Kerberos for identity management. But again, very different to use.