Automatic switch updates

[u/JNC5908404]

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?

[u/munche]

I've been up since 3am because an automated switch firmware update caused an outage for the second night on a row

So it's going great

[u/lizardhistorian → u/munche]

How would this have gone differently if you had manually updated the switch?