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An SRE Guide to Linux Kernel Upgrades

Ignat Korchagin, Cloudflare

The Linux Kernel lies at the heart of many high profile services and applications. And since the kernel code executes at the highest privilege level it is very important to keep up with kernel updates to ensure the production systems are patched in a timely manner for numerous security vulnerabilities discovered almost every day.

Yet, because the kernel code executes at the highest privilege level and a kernel bug usually …

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