Apple finally killed macOS Server. I’d appreciate opinions about options for 
replacement functionality:

I use Profile Manager for basic MDM of the pile of household devices: managed 
network accounts, cert installation, policy constraints. Is there a comparably 
lightweight MDM anyone could recommend, without getting into the full strength 
and cost of something like JAMF? Could all this be done for over a dozen 
devices or so reasonably using the Apple Configurator app?
I use macOS Server to mange server certificate 
creation/expiration/reinstallation into the keychain. I could simply fall back 
to doing everything by hand using openssl with my own CA, then trying to 
remember to follow up with cert expiration, but what a PITA. Can anyone 
recommend a decent tool that automates the basic functionality of openssl/PKI? 
I anticipate just scripting my own openssl configuration, but it would be nice 
if this were automated and simplified like macOS Server did.
Has anyone heard what will happen to the adaptive firewall afctl? Does it die 
with macOS Server?
Can someone point to a preferred macOS-friendly Apache configuration that locks 
down the native macOS webserver with TLS?

FWIW, MacPorts has several former macOS Server-based ports that perform as well 
or better than their macOS Server originals:

mail-server
calendar-contacts-server
dns-server

End of the road: Apple is killing macOS Server, the place where Mac OS X began 
| Ars Technica
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/apple-discontinues-macos-server-after-years-of-benign-neglect/
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> <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/apple-discontinues-macos-server-after-years-of-benign-neglect/>

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