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How I learned to stop worrying and love Flatcar’s auto-update

Talkat FOSDEM 2022 · on Sunday, 2022-02-06· at 13:35· D.containers· [linux-and-operating-systems, devops-and-delivery]

speaker

name:Thilo Fromm

mastodon:@thilo@fromm.social

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2022/D.containers/container_flatcar_autoupdate.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/container_flatcar_autoupdate/attachments/slides/5089/export/events/attachments/container_flatcar_autoupdate/slides/5089/FOSDEM_containers_flatcar_autoupdate.pdf

https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/container_flatcar_autoupdate/attachments/slides/5090/export/events/attachments/container_flatcar_autoupdate/slides/5090/FOSDEM_containers_flatcar_autoupdate.pptx

summary

Introduces Flatcar Container Linux’s atomic OS update mechanism and shows practical patterns for automating low-risk node and cluster updates. Covers testing strategies (including canaries) and concrete cluster scenarios for keeping container-focused OSes up to date while workloads run, with advice applicable to other atomic-update distributions.

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