Fleet Desktop out of Beta

[zwass]

Tasks to be completed before bringing Desktop out of Beta:

Next release (Agent):

• Decouple orbit and Fleet Desktop's logging #5689
• Test fleet desktop packaging for Linux on Github Actions #5696
• Fleet Desktop: "My device" does not open default browser on Ubuntu 21.0X/22.0X #5716
• Fleet Desktop initialization can take undetermined amount of time to complete #4733
• Fleet Desktop and Server Compatibility #6063
• Add support for CA root certificate to Fleet Desktop (fleetctl package's --fleet-certificate flag) #6312

Next release (Platform):

• Implement separate "device policies" API for checking Desktop notifications #5685
• Fleet Desktop to poll "device policies" endpoint (instead of /api/_version_/fleet/device/{token}) #5697
• Handle Fleet Desktop /api/_version_/fleet/device/{token}... API Premium Endpoints #5806

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Before stable:

• Documentation for Ticket destinations and Fleet Desktop #5017 (Product)
• Add orbit_info extension table support to osquery-perf #5698 (In-progress)

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Maybe not required for stable:

• Add option (+configuration) for device user to exit Fleet Desktop #5686 (quit UX is maybe not necessary but let's make sure we are prepared to handle it later)
• Figure out packaging/paths that will enable Add option (+configuration) for device user to exit Fleet Desktop #5686
• Document Fleet minimum server version that supports Fleet Desktop #5694 (instead make documentation very clear)
• Create e2e test for the Device User Page #5166

[lucasmrod]

Cool! I will be creating issues and linking them here.

[lucasmrod]

To discuss

Multi-sessions

Currently Fleet Desktop will show a tray icon on the current logon session. It hasn't been tested on hosts with multi-sessions. We need to define if we want this for the non-beta release. It involves:

• Do some research around multi-session support on the three OSs (Windows, Linux and macOS are basically three different worlds).
• Define what we really want, do we want to show a tray icon on every logon session? (there are subtleties depending on the OS).

Current Linux "Fleet Desktop" support

Works on

• CentOS 7 ☑️ [1]
• Ubuntu 18.04 ✅
• Ubuntu 20.04 ✅
• Ubuntu 21.04 ☑️ [2]
• Ubuntu 22.04 ☑️ [2]

Doesn't work on

• Ubuntu 16.04 ❌ [3]
• CentOS Stream 8 ❌ [4]

[1] Uninstalling leaves the sudo -u and fleet-desktop process running (and the tray icon).
[2] After a clean OS installation, "My device" is opening the text editor instead of the default browser (Firefox). The issue was fixed once Chrome is installed and made it the default browser. (#5716)
[3] fleet-desktop fails to start with the following error: Apr 25 05:38:52 ubuntu orbit[28449]: /var/lib/orbit/bin/desktop/linux/stable/fleet-desktop: symbol lookup error: /var/lib/orbit/bin/desktop/linux/stable/libayatana-ido3-0.4.so.0: undefined symbol: gtk_show_uri_on_window
[4] sudo -u command is executed (both sudo -u and fleet-desktop processes are running), but no tray icon is displayed. Do we even support CentOS Stream 8? (I had to install the rpm with --noverify because of a sha256 mismatch).

[lucasmrod]

I've just added one more issue to the topmost list: #6063.

[mikermcneil]

@zhumo Can this be closed?

[zhumo]

Yes!