How Spotify Re-Created Our Entire Backend Without Skipping a Beat
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 2024-03-22

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 How Spotify Re-Created Our Entire Backend Without Skipping a Beat - Nick Rutigliano & Daniel de Repentigny, Spotify

If you had to re-create every Kubernetes cluster you have, migrate half a million pods, and non-zero downtime meant international press, where would you start? Spotify Platform Engineers will share the journey of completing the arduous task of recreating our entire Kubernetes fleet from scratch, how we migrated millions of pods across tens of thousands of nodes, without downtime, or impacting application developers - without the music ever skipping a beat. We’ll take you through the migration from inception to execution, the motivations and principles behind it, and the obstacles along the way. We’ll be sharing the key architecture features and limitations that simultaneously enabled and shaped our efforts to finish such a daunting task and what others can do if they too have cluster recreations in their future. Learn where Spotify built, connected, and orchestrated automation and tooling to do all of this in a live production environment supporting over half a billion listeners.