From the course: Linux System Upgrade and Patch Management
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Documentation and change management practices - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux System Upgrade and Patch Management
Documentation and change management practices
- [Presenter] Proper documentation and change management practices are essential for manage Linux upgrades and patches efficiently and safely. So in this video, we will go over some simple documentation practices and change management. Let's start with documentation practices for Linux upgrades and patches, and the first one we will talk about is record keeping. Make sure to maintain detailed records of all updates, including the time, date, and the nature of each update or patch. Tools like Confluence or DokuWiki can be used to keep the records. Then configuration files. Keep a version control repository of all the configuration files. Use tools like Git to track changes and maintain a history of configuration. This helps in rolling back to previous configuration if an update causes issues. The next one is a system state snapshots. Before performing any significant upgrade or patch, take snapshots as we discuss many times for the system state. This could include listing of installed…
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