10 years of mgmt
I can't believe it's been 10 years

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I publicly released mgmt to the internet 10 years ago. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years. In this post I’ll talk about:

• The new mgmt company
• A one-time new customer offer
• Unexpected wins
• Past failures
• Some history
• A new release

And more…

The company:

I’ve officially started a company. I’ve been working on this for some time now, and it’s time to let you all know about it officially. As you already know (mgmt, purpleidea, etc…) I’ve never been great at naming. The company is called:

Most of the company offerings are based around mgmt. We’re offering services, support, training and products around full automation solutions. I’ve got lots of exciting things deployed to customers and we’re busy testing new products. I hope you can be a part of this.

10 year deal:

It’s early days, and we haven’t published our product brochures yet as we’re still testing and perfecting for our first customers. The products we have:

• Automated (physical and virtual) provisioning
• Automated virtual machine host configuration and lifecycle management (including eventual clustering)
• Automated workstation and laptop configuration and lifecycle management
• Automated router management (with clustered wireguard inter-networking)
• Automated simple container / virtual machine scheduling
• And much more!

These automation suites all come as a yearly subscription. For our early adopters, for a limited time, we’re now offering a ten year subscription for $10,000. This offer comes with basic support, and let’s you run these products on up to 10 machines or 100 cores. (Your choice.) You’ll also get access to our insiders channel where you get early access to inside information and more.

We also have discounts on training, consulting, and more.

If you’re interested, or for more information, contact us by form, email or telephone. This deal is available for a limited time.

The goal of this is to reward our early customers and help us stay as independent as possible so we can do right by our users and community.

Unexpected wins:

When I first started the mgmt project, I was mostly thinking about building a better Puppet. Sometime along the road while I was building mgmt, I realized that it could actually be a possible solution for modelling and building autonomous, reactive systems. I’ve since proven this to myself, and I’ve been slowly sharing this lesson with more and more of you. It motivates me to know that this leads us to a path where we’ll eventually have both small personal and giant corporate clusters of computers that all self-manage without human intervention. The days of the classic sysadmin are numbered. My one missing automation piece, is a robot to replace failed hard drives and other components. Build me that robot and give me an API, and I’ll integrate it with mgmt.

Past failures:

I was never good at marketing. I got distracted by the necessary need to pay bills instead of always having 100% of my time focused on mgmt. I was possibly too focused on core designs, architecture and algorithms, rather than immediately focusing on user use-cases. One person has called this my “art project”. I failed to convince enough of the Free Software or open source community to develop it with me. These days it seems to be mostly about getting things for free, rather than investing in our shared software future. I still believe in the software and in Free Software, and it seems that commercializing it is the only sustainable path forwards.

A new release:

The latest mgmt release is now available. It’s remarkably powerful and polished, and I’ve been having a huge amount of fun writing and running mcl code. All of you that know me well, know that I’m committed to open source and I hope you’ll return the favour and support a business model built on those values.

Feel free to download the latest version today.

Conclusion:

Enterprise products, services, support, and training are all available.

Happy Hacking,

James

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September 25, 2025
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