How to prepare yourself for the depreciation of services on macOS ServerMigrate to FOSS to continue to provide network services
Apple is planning on changing the scope of it's macOS Server app to focus on the management of your network devices as opposed to offering hosting services such as HTTP, mail, calendar, VPN, DHCP, DNS and the like. As such, starting in the spring of 2018, Apple will depreciate these services and will eventually send them on the way of the Dodo leaving any macOS running Server without anymore Apple packaged updates.
Why Apple is changing macOS Server
Alternatives for contacts and calendars
Alternatives for DNS, DHCP and HTTP
Alternatives for mail and messaging
Alternatives for VPN and netinstall
Cutting out the middle man
Apple is positioning this change as a way to cut out the middleman so to speak. All of the packages offered by Apple are from free and open source software (FOSS) and it claims that getting service packages directly from the maintainers allows administrators to get the best, most up-to-date, and secure versio...
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How to prepare yourself for the depreciation of services on macOS Server
