On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 06:47:28PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm in Seattle for the Debian Cloud sprint and it's going really > well. I'll post a report in a few days summarising what we've > done. But, in the meantime, there's something that has come up which I > think merits wider discussion.
I work on a large managed hosting provider, our images, vm and dedicated servers have unattended-updates or yum-cron by default. Some customers choose to disable it, when a cluster is built it is disabled as well, but a large percentage of our customers (>90%) have auto updates running every night. Kernel updates are disabled, mostly to avoid filing up /boot on old servers, and because we don't reboot automatically. I'm not going to say it never failed but the failure ratio is very very small -- 1AE0 322E B8F7 4717 BDEA BF1D 44BB 1BA7 9F6C 6333 keybase: https://keybase.io/gfa