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elinacorval

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Registered: 2026-04-22

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Anyone Here Managing Multiple Linux Devices Remotely?

I’ve been experimenting with using Linux across multiple systems recently, including a few test laptops and kiosk-style setups, and I started wondering how other people here handle remote management at scale.

I know Arch is usually more DIY compared to enterprise-focused distros, but I’m curious what tools or workflows people are using for things like:

Remote updates and package management
Device monitoring
Kiosk mode or locked-down setups
Remote troubleshooting
Managing configurations across multiple devices
I came across a few approaches ranging from Ansible and SSH scripting to endpoint management tools like Scalefusion and FleetDM, but I’d honestly like to know what actually works well in real-world Arch environments.

Are most people here sticking with custom scripts and automation, or using centralised management solutions?

WorMzy

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Re: Anyone Here Managing Multiple Linux Devices Remotely?

I wouldn't deploy Arch at scale, but for rpm/deb-based distros ansible works quite well.

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Whoracle

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Re: Anyone Here Managing Multiple Linux Devices Remotely?

A mix of puppet and terraform. For the actual arch part, it's puppet all the way. Well, now openvox, but still. Monitoring via telegram to influxdb and then to grafana. Log collection via systemdjournal2gelf to graylog. And keep a pull through cache for repo packages so I can update all of them to a known good state.

Roken

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Re: Anyone Here Managing Multiple Linux Devices Remotely?

I have three local machines with full desktops, though most admin is done from my main machine via SSH. Also 2 RPis (Debian based) and a remote server (Debian). I tend to find I can manage them quite well just via SSH in totality.

For updates across all, it would be fairly trivial to set up a script that will login in each, update, and exit if you can't be bothered doing them one by one.

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