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KernelCare - Rebootless Kernel Updates

AMDbuilder

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It looks like the folks over at CloudLinux are looking to shake up the rebootless kernel update market with their introduction of KernelCare (http://kernelcare.com/).  They announced pricing on March 30th, with retail sales starting on the 1st, so it's a newer solution, but looks promising.

They support CentOS6, RHEL6, CloudLinux 6, OpenVZ for x86_64 unmodified kernels currently, with more coming down the road.

Anyone give this a shot yet, and if so how has it been working for you?
 

WebSearchingPro

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KGraft is an open source and *free* alternative to KSplice and KernelCare, it was released to the public about 3 weeks ago.

https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/kgraft-live-kernel-patching-now-available-download/

Edit: There is also one called KPatch, these tools are less automated than KernelCare, but in that you will have more control over the patching process. 

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One thing to note about procedurally updating the kernel this way is the kernel may not have issues while your server is running, but if the server gets rebooted a patch may cause some unforeseen issue and the server may not boot properly. I've seen mentions of this as a potential pitfall for tools such as this.
 
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blergh

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I've been a ksplice customer since 2010 or so, sticking with that as it's cheap & proven to work.
 

LusoVPS

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Well, redhat does support this for I don't know how long (at least 3 years?). But it's quite nice that they're applying it to other distros.
 

HostSailor

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It looks like the folks over at CloudLinux are looking to shake up the rebootless kernel update market with their introduction of KernelCare (http://kernelcare.com/).  They announced pricing on March 30th, with retail sales starting on the 1st, so it's a newer solution, but looks promising.

They support CentOS6, RHEL6, CloudLinux 6, OpenVZ for x86_64 unmodified kernels currently, with more coming down the road.

Anyone give this a shot yet, and if so how has it been working for you?
Ksplice offers only services to oracle linux I think now, so thank you for the share, will give kernelcare a try.
 
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