yesterday
Greetings all,
We are migrating from our on-prem Jamf Pro to the cloud product. We are working with Rocketman Tech as consultants, and with Jamf Support of course. I just wanted to hear from anyone who has gone through this transition as to things to watch out for, possible problem points, things you would do differently and so forth. Our "lift and shift" date is January 21, 2025, so we are definitely approaching the critical point in the process. Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated.
yesterday - last edited yesterday
We did this in 2023, my best advice is to ignore the salespeople and demand to talk to engineers BEFORE your cutover date. The salespeople really have no idea what the heck they are talking about.
In our situation, our internal domain is not publicly addressable, and we were told repeatedly that this would not be an issue by the sales and support staff. I was very confused that this would not be an issue but trusted them. Migration date comes and I am talking to the engineer, and in the first 5 minutes we are told this non publicly addressable domain will be an issue and a massive one at that as we needed to go open internet. In the end we had to wipe and load the entire fleet.
If you are migrating you're existing Jamf instance to Jamf Cloud, you need to setup a CNAME redirect to "trick" your devices that the new Jamf server is the old Jamf server. If you want to be open internet, whatever your servers URL is needs to be publicly addressable now, if it's not then the Jamf Cloud server will not be publicly addressable either.
Other than that, the engineer that worked with us was amazing and went well above and beyond to make sure we were buttoned up as best as could be done. Nearly 2 years in, and I have no regrets once so ever, and I am actually thankful we effectively restarted the environment as it allowed us to clear out a lot of tech debt.
yesterday
@thebrucecarter Hopefully you have an on-prem test environment you're migrating first? That's really the only way to have any confidence that your Cloud migration will go smoothly. And are you going with the standard Jamf Cloud offering or Jamf Premium Cloud? You've got a lot more flexibility with the latter (e.g. control over your JSS certificate, restricting access to the JSS console, Global Accelerator so your Cloud instance has fixed IPs, specifying when updates are applied, ...)
8 hours ago
Hi @thebrucecarter ,
You can refer the blog and this video
https://www.jamf.com/blog/migrating-to-jamf-cloud-the-not-so-scary-reality/
https://www.jamf.com/resources/videos/migrating-to-jamf-cloud-without-falling-back-to-earth/
Thanks.