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Why can't they just do it more like Microsoft security patches, making them mandatory but giving admins control over when they're deployed?
by dmazzoni 2y ago
Why can't they just do it more like Microsoft security patches, making them mandatory but giving admins control over when they're deployed?
- XlA5vEKsMISoIln 2y agoThat would be equivalent to asking "would you prefer your fleet to bluescreen now, or later" in this case.
- jaggederest 2y agoPresumably you could roll out to 1% and report issues back to the vendor before the update was applied to the last 99%. So a headache but not "stop the world and reboot" levels of hassle.
- echoangle 2y agoWith the slight difference that you can stop applying the update once you notice the bluescreens
- jajko 2y agoThose eager would take it immediately, those conservative would wait (and be celebrated by C-suite later when SHTF). Still a much better scenario than what happened.