Redefining fleet management at Cloudflare

Cloudflare has developed Zinc, an in-house infrastructure system built in Rust, which is now an essential part of system engineering, platform management, and provisioning at the company. Zinc provides first class data models for logical and physical infrastructure assets such as servers (nodes), network devices, and data centers. It enables powerful APIs, integrations, and interfaces for efficient fleet management on top of this data. Tasks such as assigning workloads to nodes, scheduling any type of data center maintenance, querying data about their fleet, or even managing the repair cycle of faulty nodes are greatly simplified through Zinc and its integrations with other Cloudflare systems. The system also provides a native web interface and command line tooling for interacting with Zinc’s data, creating a central pane of glass where the ability to expand, build, and monitor their fleet has never been easier.