[chef] Best practices for keeping node operating system up-to-date

["Mark H. Nichols" < >]

Good morning,

I’m curious about best practices or patterns being used to keep the operating system on all the Chef-nodes up-to-date.

One option would be to have a cookbook that ran the update process for the OS, e.g., `sudo apt-get update` for Ubuntu. And to always create new nodes with the latest and greatest LTS release of the OS.

Another option would seem to be to periodically update the `*.box` image being used to create new nodes, and then to migrate all the existing nodes to new instances. This seems like a lot of work.

I’m sure there’s another option I’m not seeing.

Thanks,

Mark

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mark nichols | @zanshin | zanshin.net