fleetctl (pronounced "Fleet control") is a command line interface (CLI) tool for managing Fleet from the command line. fleetctl enables a GitOps workflow with Fleet.
fleetctl also provides a quick way to work with all the data exposed by Fleet without having to use the Fleet UI or work directly with the Fleet API.
Fleetctl is a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to manage Fleet efficiently from the command line. It enables a GitOps workflow with Fleet, providing seamless integration between code and infrastructure.
Key Features:
GitOps Workflow: Leverage GitOps practices to manage Fleet configurations and policies directly from your terminal.
CLI Interface: Access all core functionalities of Fleet through a simple, intuitive command-line interface.
Data Management: Work with all data exposed by Fleet without needing the Fleet UI or direct API interaction.
Scalability: Designed to handle large-scale deployments, supporting organizations managing tens of thousands of devices or more.
Extensibility: Integrate with existing tools and workflows, including support for popular platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, and on-premises environments.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for IT and security teams responsible for device management, vulnerability reporting, and posture-based access control. Fleetctl empowers these teams to streamline operations, enforce compliance, and maintain security across their infrastructure with minimal overhead. By adopting a GitOps approach, users can ensure consistency, traceability, and reliability in their Fleet deployments.
Fleetctl is available for installation via winget, making it easy to integrate into your existing development and operational workflows.
Open-source platform for IT and security teams with thousands of computers. Designed for APIs, GitOps, webhooks, YAML, and humans.
What's it for?
Organizations like Fastly and Gusto use Fleet for vulnerability reporting, detection engineering, device management (MDM), device health monitoring, posture-based access control, managing unused software licenses, and more.
Take as much or as little as you need for your organization.
Supported platforms
Here are the platforms Fleet currently supports:
Linux (all distros)
macOS
Windows
Chromebooks
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud (GCP)
Azure (Microsoft cloud)
Data centers
Containers (kube, etc)
Linux-based IoT devices
Lighter than air
Fleet is lightweight and modular. You can use it for security without using it for MDM, and vice versa. You can turn off features you are not using.
Openness
Fleet is dedicated to flexibility, accessibility, and clarity. We think everyone can contribute and that tools should be as easy as possible for everyone to understand.
Good neighbors
Fleet has no ambition to replace all of your other tools. (Though it might replace some, if you want it to.) Ready-to-use, enterprise-friendly integrations exist for Snowflake, Splunk, GitHub Actions, Vanta, Elastic Jira, Zendesk, and more.
Fleet plays well with Munki, Chef, Puppet, and Ansible, as well as with security tools like Crowdstrike and SentinelOne. For example, you can use the free version of Fleet to quickly report on what hosts are running your EDR agent.
The company behind Fleet is founded (and majority-owned) by true believers in open source. The company's business model is influenced by GitLab (NYSE: GTLB), with great investors, happy customers, and the capacity to become profitable at any time.
Fleet is used in production by IT and security teams with thousands of laptops and servers. Many deployments support tens of thousands of hosts, and a few large organizations manage deployments as large as 400,000+ hosts.
To see what Fleet can do, head over to fleetdm.com and try it out for yourself, grab time with one of the maintainers to discuss, or visit the docs and roll it out to your organization.
The free version of Fleet is available under the MIT license. The commercial license is also designed to allow contributions to paid features for users whose employment agreements allow them to contribute to open source projects. (See LICENSE.md for details.)
