1. Ubuntu unattended upgrades the salt way

    There are many ways to turn on the unattended upgrades in Ubuntu. Creating files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, reconfiguring the package by hand, reinstalling after debconf, etc.

    Here’s a simple way to do it with salt without breaking the Ubuntu / debconf integration:

    unattended-upgrades:
      debconf.set:
        - data …
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  2. Are your data archives append-only?

    Any long-term data archives you keep - backups, copies of logs, code repositories, audit entries, etc. Are they append-only? I don’t mean from the perspective of the account owner. Of course the operator is able to do whatever he wants with those files, including deleting them.

    But what about your …

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