Installing the latest OS updates on your Google Cloud virtual machine (VM) instances is crucial for security, stability, bug fixes, new features, compatibility, compliance, and overall performance. Google Cloud VM instances can utilize the OS Config agent API to regularly report OS inventory data, usually every 10 minutes. The patch compliance API then analyzes this data and compares it with metadata to determine if the latest updates are installed.
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Keeping virtual machine (VM) operating systems up to date is essential for maintaining security and compliance. Employing Google Cloud's VM manager for OS Patch management can efficiently streamline the update process. Maintaining an updated operating system is one of the most effective methods to safeguard against constantly evolving known vulnerabilities that malicious actors can exploit for cyber attacks.
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To ensure that your virtual machine (VM) instances are using the latest operating system updates, perform the following actions:
Remediation / Resolution
To ensure that your virtual machine (VM) instances are using the latest operating system updates, perform the following operations:
References
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Documentation
- Google Cloud APIs
- Set up VM Manager
- OS patch management
- VM Manager
- Operating system details
- Verifying VM Manager setup
- View operating system details
- Configure Private Google Access
- Troubleshooting VM Manager
- GCP Command Line Interface (CLI) Documentation
- gcloud projects list
- gcloud services list
- gcloud compute project-info describe
- gcloud services enable
- gcloud compute project-info add-metadata
- gcloud compute instances list
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Latest Operating System Updates
Risk Level: Medium