I am honestly kinda curious how exactly you manage your servers and keep them up to date, I feel like there is a linux patch every week or so, which would usually require a reboot. Do you all deploy live patching, how you become aware of critical stuff in your otherwise busy lives, RSS?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Couldn't auto updates break things if they arnt tested?

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They should be tested upstream of you, assuming you aren't using customized (eg roll your own) versions of any of the ancillary software (php, pgsql, redis, etc). Generally configs are either merged or not adopted, and you can restrict version upgrades to non major releases, if there's chances of breakages between them (eg moving from pgsql 9 to 10, etc).