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Nodes drift for a year between patch cycles and every one is a snowflake. How should node OS management work?

SSH plus yum is how outages start. The senior answer replaces nodes from versioned images on a cadence, orchestrates with surge capacity and PDBs, and can explain the kernel-skew problem that makes fleet homogeneity a feature.

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SSH plus yum is how outages start. The senior answer replaces nodes from versioned images on a cadence, orchestrates with surge capacity and PDBs, and can explain the kernel-skew problem that makes fleet homogeneity a feature.

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