Dogfood: Chrome & Firefox Fleet-maintained apps

[noahtalerman]

To help us reproduce this bug using dogfood.

• @noahtalerman: Only added to "Workstations (canary)" for testing. Why not use the Fleet-maintained apps in for the "Workstations" team?

[noahtalerman]

FYI @zayhanlon @mostlikelee

[allenhouchins]

@noahtalerman How long do we need these available in dogfood for testing? The Google Chrome FMA does not use the enterprise installer of Google Chrome. We also use the existing Firefox setup for showing off patch management and gitops pull request workflows with prospects/customers since they don't provide a latest download URL.

[noahtalerman]

How long do we need these available in dogfood for testing? The Google Chrome FMA does not use the enterprise installer of Google Chrome. We also use the existing Firefox setup for showing off patch management and gitops pull request workflows with prospects/customers since they don't provide a latest download URL.

Adding this to :help-dogfooding so we don't forget to discuss.

[noahtalerman]

UPDATE: @noahtalerman: Fleet-maintained apps are updated every time GitOps runs! More info in Slack.

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• @allenhouchins: One shortcoming For Windows is that the Fleet-maintained app supports x64 only (doesn't support Arm). Today, with custom packages we can support both.
• @allenhouchins: The biggest pain point: Today, Fleet-maintained apps don't update. Our custom package does update because everytime GitOps runs, we download and upload the latest Chrome.
  • @noahtalerman: I think this will be addressed by this story.
  • @allenhouchins: This is the biggest pain point.
    • @noahtalerman: With this improvement could still do the Firefox update demo.
• @noahtalerman: Another short coming: For macOS and Windows, the URL for the custom package includes install behavior settings in the URL:

https://dl.google.com/tag/s/appguid%3D%7B8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96%7D%26iid%3D%7B53CCDE8D-FD40-46DE-67E7-61E96CFEFCAA%7D%26lang%3Den%26browser%3D4%26usagestats%3D0%26appname%3DGoogle%2520Chrome%26needsadmin%3Dtrue%26ap%3Dx64-stable-statsdef_0%26brand%3DGCEA/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi

[noahtalerman]

How long do we need these available in dogfood for testing?

Just this week! I can be responsible for switching this back :)

[noahtalerman]

• @allenhouchins: One shortcoming For Windows is that the Fleet-maintained app supports x64 only (doesn't support Arm). Today, with custom packages we can support both.
• @allenhouchins: This biggest pain point: Today, Fleet-maintained apps don't update. Our custom package does update because everytime GitOps runs, we download and upload the latest Chrome.
  • @noahtalerman: I think this will be addressed by this story.
  • @allenhouchins: This is the biggest pain point.
    • @noahtalerman: With this improvement could still do the Firefox update demo.
• @noahtalerman: Another short coming: For macOS and Windows, the URL for the custom package includes install behavior settings in the URL:

https://dl.google.com/tag/s/appguid%3D%7B8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96%7D%26iid%3D%7B53CCDE8D-FD40-46DE-67E7-61E96CFEFCAA%7D%26lang%3Den%26browser%3D4%26usagestats%3D0%26appname%3DGoogle%2520Chrome%26needsadmin%3Dtrue%26ap%3Dx64-stable-statsdef_0%26brand%3DGCEA/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi

FYI @mostlikelee