Mandate zero patching. Drive automation in the cloud.

In-place patching is an anti-pattern for cloud-native applications that originates from the data center with low levels of automation for infrastructure and application management.

The shift-left movement pushes ownership to the development teams that are best served by applying all changes via their CI/CD pipelines. This goes for infrastructure, containers, serverless, code, et al.

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The talk did not cover zero-day emergency patching.  Sometimes a mass update must be applied to all like systems.  In that case, patching may be supported with a full redeployment as soon as possible after that.








Created 2022 03

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