Hi Attila, Basically Google's management services will apply in-place security patches (excludes container image runtime) and any operating system and security updates during the restarts on a weekly basis per the doc at "Choosing an App Engine Environment <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-environments#comparing_high-level_features> ".
On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 12:18:02 PM UTC-5, Attila-Mihaly Balazs wrote: > > Hello all, > > Flexible instances sound great in theory - use runtime you wish as long as > you can create a docker image for it and listen for HTTP on 8080. > > However, one of the reasons I prefer AppEngine (standard) is the fact that > I don't want to be Ops - don't want to be concerned about updating the > kernel at 3AM in the morning when the latest exploit comes out. I love that > G just handles that for me with AppEngine standard. > > How does this work with flexible? There is a throw-away line in the > documentation about "flex instances will be restarted at least once per > month to apply critical security updates", however I fail to see how this > could work when - from what I can see - the base image can be anything (ie. > RedHat, Ubuntu, Arch or even Linux From Scratch, OpenWRT, etc :-)). > > To what extent does Google patch the flexible instances? Do I still need > to recreate the docker image weekly for example to ensure that all the > latest packages are installed? Or rather - do I need to deploy weekly in > this case? (since deploying rebuilds the docker image - which is nice but > still annoying that I need to deploy at least once a week to have my > instances be up to date). > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/59309454-908b-4329-960a-2eac988558a4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
