Chapter 5: Maintaining Cloud Operations
A. Full backups offer the advantage of a complete and up-to-date copy of your data in one operation. They have the disadvantage of taking a long time to perform because all the data in a storage system must be copied instead of just the modified data from the last backup.
C, D. Cloud configuration front ends as well as automation systems using scripting or API calls can shut down and restart virtual machines as required. Both restarts and shutdowns may be performed because of a code upgrade, troubleshooting, or other needs. The shutdown and restart processes can be monitored through the management systems and dashboards that are offered by the cloud provider. If they do not respond, these systems can be configured to generate an alarm.
A, C, E. Common patch management offerings are Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
B. A patch is a piece of software that is intended to update an application, operating system, or any other software-based system to fix...
