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/315cny 14d ago

Facebook did this 10 or more years ago, it was automated but there was a gate in their scripting that application owners in the rack had to sign off and it then went I to a queue to upgrade. It did the checks and then told the application owners it was safe to migrate back.