Guaranteeing that our servers are continually upgraded to secure and vetted operating systems is one major step that we take to ensure our members and customers can access LinkedIn to look for new roles, access new learning programs, or exchange knowledge with other professionals. LinkedIn has quite a large fleet of servers on-premise that depend on internal...

Ensuring operating system upgrades are done quickly and efficiently is just one way we ensure that the underlying applications and our website are running smoothly for LinkedIn members and customers. AutoBuild is LinkedIn’s end-to-end automated server lifecycle management system. Besides building new servers and reimaging the existing server fleet, Autobuild...

Co-authors: Rohit Jamuar, Tianxin Zhou Introduction LinkedIn has a large set of physical servers geographically spread across several locations. Every application is hosted on a physical server and is distributed and managed across one of these hosts. With a reasonably sizable footprint of servers in data centers, LinkedIn is responsible for ensuring that these...