Financial technology company manages 15,000 devices with GitOps

A financial technology company managing a massive environment of roughly 15,000 endpoints required a solution that could keep up with their product velocity and integrate seamlessly with their "configuration as code" philosophy.

At a glance

• Endpoints: ~11,000 Mac, ~864 Windows, ~3,000 Linux.
• Primary requirement: GitOps workflows and high-quality API.
• Key integrations: Salt-based config management, Digicert, and SIEM.
• Previous solution: Workspace ONE.

The Challenge

The team’s primary frustration with Workspace One was its inconsistency, particularly with delays in shipping configuration profiles and poor API quality. Linux servers also remained a silo, requiring separate scripting and tooling because of limited MDM support.

The Solution

The team prioritized GitOps workflows and API compatibility to align with their existing Salt-based configuration management. Fleet’s public issue tracking and open communication provided the transparency needed to trust the platform's development cycle.

The Results

• Rapid migration: The team planned a migration of 250 hosts per day to minimize disruption.
• MDM proxy: They developed an MDM proxy to replicate Salt proxy minion workflows, enabling true configuration-as-code.
• Security pipeline: Integrating Fleet with their SIEM via a Firehose pipeline enhanced threat detection and compliance monitoring.

About Fleet

Fleet is the open-source endpoint management platform that gives you total control, unlike the proprietary 'black boxes' of legacy vendors. Our open device management provides full visibility into our code and roadmap, plus a true choice of deployment—on-prem or cloud—with 100% feature parity. Our API-first approach empowers technical teams to automate with GitOps, scale confidently, and get the real-time data needed to secure their entire macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux fleets.