Automatic Updates
Automatic Security Updates with DNF
The dnf package manager and dnf-automatic tool can be used for automated security patching on Linux systems. It requires only a few steps to set it up.
Summary
The Dandified YUM tool, DNF, has become a powerful package manager for systems running Fedora. As it looks now, it will become also the default package manager for CentOS 8 and RHEL 8. One of the benefits from dnf is the option to retrieve security information very easily. This allows us to use it for automatic security patching of our Linux systems. Let’s explore the options and see how dnf-automatic can help us with fully automated patching.