On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM Yafang Shao <laoar.s...@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > > If you’re managing a large fleet of servers, this issue is far from > negligible. > > > > > > Can you provide examples of companies that use atomic replacement at > > > scale in their production environments? > > > > At least SUSE uses it as a solution for its customers. No many problems > > have been reported since we started ~10 years ago.
We (Meta) always use atomic replacement for our live patches. > > Perhaps we’re running different workloads. > Going back to the original purpose of livepatching: is it designed to address > security vulnerabilities, or to deploy new features? > If it’s the latter, then there’s definitely a lot of room for improvement. We only use KLP to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities. We do not use live patches to deploy new features. Thanks, Song
