Everything is Code - Embracing GitOps at Spotify

Dive into a 15-minute conference talk exploring Spotify's comprehensive adoption of GitOps principles. Discover how developers at the music streaming giant leverage Git for a wide range of operations, including infrastructure provisioning, build processes, service deployment, documentation delivery, dependency management, monitoring setup, incident management, and cost optimization. Gain insights into the concept of "software catalog as code" and its implementation through Backstage to manage metadata for an expanding software inventory with complex dependencies. Explore the benefits of this developer-centric GitOps approach, such as increased development speed, built-in audit trails, rollback capabilities, and streamlined change review processes. Learn how Spotify extends the "as code" paradigm beyond traditional Infrastructure as Code, encompassing areas like documentation, monitoring, and builds.