More resources

Here are links to some additional resources surrounding AutoPkg and related tools:

Blog posts

Blogs with Multiple Posts

• Managing OS X – Greg Neagle, since 2013
• Der Flounder – Rich Trouton, since 2013
• Mac Labs Blog – Anthony Reimer, since 2014 (AutoPkg posts marked with 📦)
• Subject: Mac – Graham Pugh, since 2015
• Alan Siu's Blog – Alan Siu, since 2019
• MacBlog – Matthew Warren, since 2019
• The Macintosh Guy – Tony Williams, since 2020
• apizz - Yet another Mac admin blog – AP Orlebeke, since 2020
• ElliotJordan.com – Elliot Jordan, since 2021
• St. Ignatius College Prep Tech Blog – Alan Siu, 2015–17
• The Geeky Gordo – Steve Wood, 2013–15

Individual Posts

Listed in reverse chronological order

• Running AutoPkg in Github Actions – Gusto Engineering (William Theaker), 2021
• A beginner's guide to using AutoPkg with GitLab Runner - Graham Pugh, 2020
• AutoPkg & munki ou comment gérer correctement votre catalogue logiciel - Yoann Gini, 2014
• AutoPkg change notifications - Sean Kaiser, 2013
• AutoPkg and Jenkins under one admin account - Steve Yuroff, 2013

Videos from Conferences and Meetups

Listed in reverse chronological order (⭐️ = Important):

• Using AutoPkg for Windows Software 2.0 - James Stewart, Mac Admins Conference, 2023 July 20
• GitHub Actions for Mac Admins - James Smith, X World, 2023 March 30 (AutoPkg in a CI/CD environment)
• Demystifying JamfUploader - Anthony Reimer and Graham Pugh, MacAdmins Campfire Sessions, 2022 July 14
• Solving problems with custom AutoPkg processors - Matthew Warren, University of Utah Mac Admins Meeting, 2022 May 18
• Making package uploading and deployment easier with JamfUploader - Graham Pugh and Anthony Reimer, Jamf Nation User Conference 2021
• AutoPkgr + Jamf Pro: A Perfect Match - Shawn Honsberger, Jamf Nation User Conference 2021
• AutoPkg Everything - Graham Pugh, MacSysAdmin 2021
• AutoPkg in the Cloud - Rich Trouton, MacSysAdmin 2021 (JNUC 2021 version also available)
• Digging for download URLs for AutoPkg recipes - Ben Toms, MacDevOpsYVR 2021
• AutoPkg recipes in YAML - Graham Pugh, Texas Apple Admins Virtual Meetup, 2021 March 30
• Things I Learned from the AutoPkg Maintainers - Anthony Reimer, Mac Admins Campfire Sessions 2020
• Writing and Understanding AutoPkg Recipes - Anthony Reimer, MacTech Conference 2019
• ⭐️ AutoPkg 2020 - Greg Neagle, MacSysAdmin 2019
• AutoPkg Level-Up - Anthony Reimer, Mac Admins at Penn State 2018
• Getting All the Apps to Devices: When and How We Use Patch, AutoPkg, and VPP Together - Ben Toms and John Miller, Jamf Nation User Conference 2017
• ⭐️ How (Not) To Do Bad Things With AutoPkg - Elliot Jordan, Mac Admins at Penn State 2017; earlier versions include MacDevOpsYVR 2016 and MacAD.UK (GitHub repo)
• AutoPkg, Munki & You: Automating 3rd party application updates - Damon Vogel, Mac Admins at Penn State 2016
• Writing better AutoPkg recipes with the help of Recipe Robot - Shea Craig and Elliot Jordan, Mac Admins at Penn State 2016
• Using AutoPkg for Windows Software - James Stewart and Matt Hansen, Mac Admins at Penn State 2015
• AutoPkg: Crowd-sourcing Mac packaging and deployment - Tim Sutton and Greg Neagle, MacSysAdmin 2014
• ⭐️ You Oughta Check Out AutoPkg - Greg Neagle, Mac Admins at Penn State 2014
• Managing Updates - The Next Level - Greg Neagle, MacSysAdmin 2013

Community tools

• AutoPkgr - A Mac app that serves as an interface for AutoPkg's basic features.
• Recipe Robot - A tool for automatically creating sets of AutoPkg recipes for simple Mac apps.
• autopkg-cache-cleaner - A shell script that prunes your AutoPkg cache.
• autopkg-scripts - A couple of scripts; one that will prune your AutoPkg cache, one that will update trust on all recipes in a recipe list.
• AutoPkg Conductor - A shell script for managing AutoPkg runs with optional reporting and scheduling options
• AutoPkg Setup Script for Jamf Pro - Another script that installs AutoPkg and JSSImporter.
• AutoPkg-CI - Automate AutoPkg runs using Jenkins (no longer maintained, for reference only).
• JamfRecipeMaker - an AutoPkg processor that automatically generates Jamf recipes from inputted pkg or jss recipes.