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0 pointsdx0344y ago0 comments

Most cloud users will have a VM somewhere which you also have to manage.

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Not at all. GCP, AWS, and Digital Ocean all have PaaS/serverless systems that eliminate the concept of VM (from your perspective). I haven't managed a production VM in many years.

PetahNZ4y ago

Even Elastic Beanstalk, which is just EC2 instances have a checkbox for automatic 0 down time updates.

Nextgrid4y ago

Debian and derivatives have unattended-upgrades too.

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stickfigure4y ago

Not at all. GCP, AWS, and Digital Ocean all have PaaS/serverless systems that eliminate the concept of VM (from your perspective). I haven't managed a production VM in many years.

PetahNZ4y ago

Even Elastic Beanstalk, which is just EC2 instances have a checkbox for automatic 0 down time updates.

Nextgrid4y ago

Debian and derivatives have unattended-upgrades too.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse