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> I have machines at these providers with 1000-1300 days of uptime You did not say what system you use on them, but don't you need to reboot them to apply kern
by petit_robert 11mo ago
> I have machines at these providers with 1000-1300 days of uptime
You did not say what system you use on them, but don't you need to reboot them to apply kernel upgrades, for instance?
- lossolo 11mo agoMost of them run Debian (some have Windows VMs running on those Debian machines), while a minority use Ubuntu. I reboot them once every few years when I upgrade the OS, kernel, or migrate to newer machine types. I run most of the workloads in containers, but there are also some VMs (mostly Windows) and some workloads use Firecracker micro vms in containers. A small number of machines are rebooted more often because they occasionally need new kernel features, and their workloads aren't VM friendly, so they run on bare metal.