Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 1): Spotify’s Shift to a Fleet-First Mindset

Fleet Management at Spotify (Part 1): Spotify’ s Shift to a Fleet-First Mindset

摘要

Instead of performing 10 major software upgrades to our infrastructure every year, what if we did 10,000 small ones? Across our entire codebase? That’s the idea behind Fleet Management: by building automation tools that can safely make changes to thousands of repos at once, we can maintain the health of our tech infrastructure continuously (instead of slowly and laboriously). More importantly, removing this low-level work from our developers’ to-do lists allows product teams to focus on solving problems way more interesting than migrating from Java 17.0.4 to 17.0.5. A healthier, more secure codebase, plus happier, more productive engineers. What’s not to like? In this first post about Fleet Management at Spotify, we describe what it means to adopt a fleet-first mindset — and the benefits we’ve seen so far.