When it comes to your self-hosted services, what sort of attitude do you have when it comes to installing updates?
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When it comes to your self-hosted services, what sort of attitude do you have when it comes to installing updates? Do you install them right away? Wait a week or two? Update only when absolutely necessary? And why?
(I'm typically the sort of person that likes to be using the latest release of everything, but I'm open to opinions)
@zak When I ran Kubernetes I used to manage all updates via a Renovate bot. Now that I‘m back to using a package manager to install most things, I usually just go in and run an update every few weeks, unless I notice that there‘s a particular security vulnerability there, where I will update early or, depending on what it is, temporarily firewall the affected service, etc.
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When it comes to your self-hosted services, what sort of attitude do you have when it comes to installing updates? Do you install them right away? Wait a week or two? Update only when absolutely necessary? And why?
(I'm typically the sort of person that likes to be using the latest release of everything, but I'm open to opinions)
As mine are just for me and not internet visible, I don't do them right away. I tend to wait until either they *need* it, or I'm at a loose end.
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@mmeier@social.mei-home.net @zak@infosec.exchange do you manually check each application? Or have a way to track release notes for all of them?
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When it comes to your self-hosted services, what sort of attitude do you have when it comes to installing updates? Do you install them right away? Wait a week or two? Update only when absolutely necessary? And why?
(I'm typically the sort of person that likes to be using the latest release of everything, but I'm open to opinions)
@zak I am on the bleeding edge, basically always.
If something breaks and I can't instantly roll back, it's my fault.
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When it comes to your self-hosted services, what sort of attitude do you have when it comes to installing updates? Do you install them right away? Wait a week or two? Update only when absolutely necessary? And why?
(I'm typically the sort of person that likes to be using the latest release of everything, but I'm open to opinions)
@zak I do it when I'm feeling up for potentially fixing things hah. So usually once or twice a month.
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When it comes to your self-hosted services, what sort of attitude do you have when it comes to installing updates? Do you install them right away? Wait a week or two? Update only when absolutely necessary? And why?
(I'm typically the sort of person that likes to be using the latest release of everything, but I'm open to opinions)
@zak mostly leave tags to latest and let it update itself regularly (once a week). For services that are crucial to my usage that can’t break I leave on a specific version and keep up-to-date on releases. If a new version appears with improvements I want or need, I update. Otherwise I leave them be. Case in point: my VPN container. I never update it, whereas my Seerr container I keep regularly updated for new changes.
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@zak mostly leave tags to latest and let it update itself regularly (once a week). For services that are crucial to my usage that can’t break I leave on a specific version and keep up-to-date on releases. If a new version appears with improvements I want or need, I update. Otherwise I leave them be. Case in point: my VPN container. I never update it, whereas my Seerr container I keep regularly updated for new changes.
@rodrcastro What are you using for a VPN that's containerized? Or is this just something basic that you've got on a VPS and you're using that?
