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Is kernelcare worth it?
Kind of getting tired of constant security updates. Rebooting is always a bit stressful. Can only do that during off hours which adds to the stress.
So thinking of getting kernelcare. It's not too expensive but adds up if you have a lot of servers.
Curious what peoples opinions are about it.
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Linux 4.0 will have rebootless kernel updates so in a year your problems will go away. If it's that much stress I'd say go ahead and pay for it, at least on the essential servers that require uptime.
I would say 4.0 is several years away from anything we are doing. More likely we will be using Kpatch when we upgrade to CE7 in a year or two.
Imo its not expensive at all it really does not add up unless you are talking hundreds and hundreds of servers and if you are they have a noc scale price system anyway and you get patches pre disclosure in some cases so yeah... Worth its weight in gold.
It's worth it.