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bcvvvy • today at 2:51 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Every vendor is winging it there. Even RHEL. Ubuntu ships shit half the time as well even on LTS.

If you need to test it you should pin packages.


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otterley • today at 3:53 PM

> If you need to test it you should pin packages.

Unfortunately people rarely follow best practices.

Customers frequently do risky things like using launch templates that refer to the latest AMI. AMI changes, Auto Scaling launches a new/replacement instance in the fleet without adequate testing, *boom*.