LXer: Live Patching Requires Reproducible Builds – and Containers Are the Answer
 

Published at LXer:

We know that live patching has real benefits because it significantly reduces the downtime associated with frequent patching. But live patching is relatively difficult to achieve without causing other problems and for that reason live patching is not implemented as frequently as it could be. After all, the last thing sysadmins want is a live patch that crashes a system.

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Edited. Sorry. Mi bad.