Automating Datacenter Operations at Dropbox

1 · Dropbox · Jan. 16, 2019, 10:33 p.m.
  Introduction As a company that manages our own infrastructure we need to be able to rapidly install new server capacity and ensure that the equipment entering our production environment is highly reliable. Prior to the creation and implementation of the Pirlo system, engineering personnel at Dropbox manually intervened in most aspects of server/switch provisioning and validation. Pirlo was designed to eliminate and automate many of these manual processes. In this post we will describe Pirlo, ...