$ dmidecode -s system-version Netflix Chaperone VM v0xFF Wait — v0xFF ? That wasn’t a real version. Chaperone was their internal VM lifecycle manager. v0xFF was the .
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8375C CPU @ 2.90GHz Fine. But then: netflix vm config
Alex dug into the VM’s birth certificate (a metadata endpoint they used for auditing). The VM was provisioned — impossible, because Netflix autoscaling recycled VMs every 14 days max. $ dmidecode -s system-version Netflix Chaperone VM v0xFF