Scope software with labels

[nonpunctual]

Organizations may have the need to install applications based on:

• role
• persona
• job title
• department
• organizational unit
• LDAP group
• etc...

i.e., a grouping of Hosts or end users that does not align to a Team in Fleet.

Scenario:

• Customer-preston does not or can't use Teams in Fleet
  • They would like applications to be assigned to "No Team"
  • (see: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/issues/19550)

If we do this, the only options for application install in the case where a customer does not use Teams would be:

• install apps for every device in the fleet (i.e., "No Team")
• install apps for 0 devices in the fleet (i.e., applications would not be assignable)

Problem

• If applications can only be assigned to a Team, multiple Teams, "All Teams" or "No Team", how would a Fleet customer make an application assignment from the list above that is not aligned with a Team?

Potential solutions

1. Allow applications to be assigned to Hosts that match a Label.

[valentinpezon-primo]

Hi @noahtalerman @nonpunctual ,

No much to add to this one, for context :

• We will use labels to group hosts
• We would like to upload software without any teams related to it, aka "no team"
• We would like to be able to say : "I want the hosts that have this labels to have access to this list of app"

Since we are the source of truth for labels, A workaround could be to use your API to do software installs based on our internal labels

[noahtalerman]

Contributes to parity with Jamf

[noahtalerman]

Thanks @valentinpezon-primo for the info!