This is pretty generic -- isn't that how virtually any decent footprint site with physical infrastructure operates (at least from ~2000 onward)? I'd be more in

This is pretty generic -- isn't that how virtually any decent footprint site with physical infrastructure operates (at least from ~2000 onward)? I'd be more interested in blog posts about either what they were doing before which was different/worse and got upgraded, or how they decided on specific things. Their in-house tool gPanel is pretty cool, though (https://githubengineering.com/githubs-metal-cloud/ https://githubengineering.com/githubs-metal-cloud/) -- I've seen a lot of people build their own of that in ways which are far less sophisticated, or used one of the ~10 other tools for it. How much effort an org puts into making sure firmware is all the same is probably a good indicator of how competent they are, IMO.