Patchmon: Has anyone tried this?

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I think this might be useful for managing Linux machines but this looks rather new and untested.

Has anyone any experience with this?

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The website looks like all the other vibe coded sites that have popped up to quickly solve some problem for a small fee.

This video is from 7 years ago but still relevant: Debian unattended upgrades

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Well yea, when looking at contributions on GitHub Claude is number three.

I usually just use unattended upgrades to on my Linux machines but having the oversight is something that might be nice.

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True, but your adding just another potential supply chain worry

These days I am very selective

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I use Ansible for all my maintenance and patching needs. I used it to upgrade my Proxmox hosts from 8.X to 9, Debian VMs from 12.x to 13, and to move from Promtail to Grafana Alloy on all my devices and VMs. I even use it to add my monitoring stack to new VMs. I have a cron job to automatically update all my VMs and devices every night. I have no desire to move away from Ansible, and personally don’t see the need for Patchmon, unattended upgrades, etc.

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I also recommend Ansible. I also use Semaphore with it which is a nice UI for Ansible (GitHub - semaphoreui/semaphore: Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt, PowerShell and other DevOps tools. · GitHub). Funny enough, they use Claude too. If you want, I can share some Docker Compose setups for Ansible and Semaphore. Bonus ansible can also update your windows machines.

Also, I would lime to address he knee-jerk reaction to AI. People see AI and immediately assume it’s just “vibe coding” or low-quality stuff, and that’s not necessarilytrue. I work with a dev team in the government space, and some of our best engineers use AI all the time. It’s just another tool. If you know what you’re doing, most importsnly know what you want, check the output, and stick to normal practices like static and dynamic scans in your DevOps flow, you can get really solid results.

AI isn’t going anywhere. You can either learn how to use it well or get left behind. Just my $0.02.

Thanks

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