May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 6m
English
Under OpenStack, the hypervisor creates and runs independent virtual machines or instances. These instances require software updates and patching separate from the underlying OpenStack infrastructure on which it resides. Updates to the hypervisor and underlying server operating systems do not propagate up to the active workloads and instances; therefore, two strategies must exist—one for instances running on the cloud and another for the cloud infrastructure.
The instance strategy should align with the existing organizational and governance policies that are currently in effect that control patching of existing legacy systems. Because OpenStack launches instances based on images and flavors that may ...
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