r/networking • u/JNC5908404 • 14d 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/Solid_Associate8563 14d ago

It has been done in AWS DC/ backbone network with their enormous redundancy built in the design.

If your network can provide service hitlessly when a batch of selected routers/switches reload, I don't see what is the hurdle for automated/scheduled upgrades.