Canonical Live Patch service

[oshunluvr]

Is anyone using this? I haven't seen any posts about it, but saw this message when I logged into my 18.04 NUC using ssh:

* Canonical Livepatch is available for installation.
- Reduce system reboots and improve kernel security. Activate at:
https://ubuntu.com/livepatch

Just wondering if anyone had any experience or comments about this.

https://www.ubuntu.com/server/livepatch

[vinnywright]

No , but it dose look interesting , for some one running a server that cant afford to reboot on every kernel fix .

I wander what the overhead is .

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Canonical Live Patch service

From what I gather you have to be a member of Ubuntu Community or Ubuntu Advantage Services (subscription). The former allows you 3 free machines. The latter, I suspect, charges for each machine.

You’ll need snap to install it. (?). The CLI is how it is installed, configured and queried. The service runs as a daemon. I don’t know how much CPU time it needs or how often it queries its update servers.

Not having to reboot your servers after a kernel patch would be wonderful for Ubuntu based servers and farms. For personal laptop? Not so much.

I’ve uninstalled snap over a year ago.