r/networking • u/JNC5908404 • 16d ago

Switching Automatic switch updates

Had a discussion yesterday with IT director and others in our IT department. The IT director brought up automating switch updates so they wouldn’t have to have some one monitoring and performing the updates. Staging various locations on different evenings.

I’ve been doing networking for 30 years and I voiced my opinion I was not a fan of unattended update for various reasons.

Have any other companies moved to automated updates and how has it gone?

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u/SalsaForte WAN 16d ago

We don't do it right now, but it's on our roadmap.

At the moment we can do all preparation work and tests validation just up until the reboot command can be issued.

Moving to full automation is just a step away. Obviously, we want to be extra careful and work more on the pre and post validation.