April 2026 has not been kind to someone who is responsible for maintaining and securing online services, Copy Fail and dirtyfrag kept everyone busy with updating machines and making sure no data was lost or exfiltrated.
Environments provisioned with Solidblocks Cloud are always kept up to date, using Debian’s unattended-upgrade feature. While this works nicely to keep software packages up-to-date, a kernel update still requires a reboot.
This process is now automatically available in the Solidblocks cloud CLI.
The command
blcks cloud status cloud1.yaml
provides an overview of all deployed servers, and any pending kernel updates.
see it in action
If a kernel update is pending, the update can be applied by running
blcks cloud maintenance cloud1.yaml
which will reboot all affected servers and make sure everything is up-to-date.