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I am very curious on what Apple uses as the server OS in its datacenters. Do they use OSX or do they use Linux / FreeBSD?

• FBISurveillance 8y ago
  A company of Apple size likely uses multiple OS', I wouldn't be surprised if they even run Windows servers somewhere. Judging from their "DevOps" position requirements, their stack is similar to many others out there Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Python (with accent on Python so maybe Salt Stack), Ruby, Go, Git, C++. Given their extensive Hadoop infrastructure, likely CentOS or Debian flavor. Some job positions list "RHEL or derivative a plus".
  • e12e 8y ago
    > Ansible,... Python (with accent on Python so maybe Salt Stack) I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to use ansible and salt stack (both automation tolls written in python). They strike me more as alternatives than being complimentary.
    • krylon 8y ago
      Apple is a big company. Different teams/divisions within the company might plausibly use both.
  • solarkraft 8y ago
    > I wouldn't be surprised if they even run Windows servers somewhere. I would be a little, because they seem to proud to do it. At least their public facing infrastructure seems very well selected and uniform.