Organizations and educational institutions increasingly rely on fleets of laptops used both on-site and remotely. Managing these devices securely and efficiently is traditionally achieved using proprietary ecosystems such as Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Intune. However, these solutions often require expensive licenses and may limit flexibility, transparency, and customization.
The objective of this internship is to study, integrate, and evaluate open source alternatives for enterprise laptop fleet management. The project will focus on replacing common Windows ecosystem functionalities such as:
The student will design and implement a prototype infrastructure demonstrating how these open source technologies can provide a secure and scalable alternative for managing a fleet of Linux laptops.
The goal of this project is to design and implement an open source infrastructure for managing a fleet of laptops, including centralized identity management, authentication, configuration management, and remote administration capabilities.
The student will evaluate several existing open source solutions, compare their features and limitations, and develop deployment and management scenarios suitable for educational or enterprise environments.
source code and deployment scripts on our GitLab server infrastructure-as-code configuration files and documentation 1 blog post 1 poster a project report documenting the architecture, deployment process, and evaluation results
To start this project you should have some knowledge of:
Knowledge of the following technologies is considered a plus:
Applicant’s country of origin must be a member of EU or NATO
To achieve this project, you will use following tools and technologies:
Possible technologies explored during the project include: