[GTALUG] Ubuntu/Canonical livepatch

[Jamon Camisso]

So this just got announced: https://www.ubuntu.com/server/livepatch

>From this write up it sounds like a pretty clean implementation of
kpatch: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/10/canonical-livepatch.html

Free for up to 3 machines beats any of the Suse, RHEL, or Oracle offerings.

I've got it running, so far no changes, but hopefully there'll be an
update for CVE-2016-5195 soon:

sudo canonical-livepatch status --verbose
machine-id: <snip>
last-check: 2016-10-20T11:35:01.408858488+01:00
boot-time: 2016-10-20T11:28:11+01:00
uptime: 10h48m6s
status:
- kernel: 4.8.0-25.27-generic
  running: false
  livepatch:
    state: nothing-to-apply
    version: ""
    fixes: ""
- kernel: 4.4.0-36.55-generic
  running: true
  livepatch:
    state: nothing-to-apply
    version: ""
    fixes: ""