Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Proxmox are also supported

Nov 4, 2016 00:50 GMT  ·  By

Softpedia was informed by CloudLinux about the company's KernelCare Linux kernel live patching solution, which has been around for the past two years, and loved by the Linux community.

With customers like Dell and LiquidWeb, which run KernelCare on thousands of their servers, CloudLinux managed to offer users an unmatched kernel live patching solution that offers a no roll-back functionality that offers great flexibility to system administrators, allowing them to test their servers with or without it, as well as to install and uninstall without a reboot.

"Our easy, rebootless install with a single line of code will ensure you never miss another kernel security patch," said CloudLinux. "Stay up to date on all security patches to avoid disastrous incidents. KernelCare checks for new patches every four hours, and automatically applies those patches. A few minutes spent installing KernelCare will bring years of secure, rebootless Linux kernel updates."

Supported GNU/Linux distributions and Linux kernels

At the moment, KernelCare works on CentOS 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x, as well as CentOS 7 Plus, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x series, CloudLinux OS 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x, Debian GNU/Linux 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x, Xen4CentOS 6 and 7, Proxmox 2.6, 3.10, and 4.4, as well as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS. It also supports Virtuozzo/OpenVZ 2.6.32, Xen, KVM, PSBM, VirtualBox, VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V, VZ, PCS, and LXC virtualizations.

As for the supported kernels, it appears that KernelCare provides support for Linux kernels from the 2.6.18, 2.6.32, 3.10.0, 3.13, 3.16, 3.18, 3.19, 4.2, and 4.4 branches. 32-bit and 64-bit supported is provided as well, along with binary patches for known vulnerabilities and support for custom patches. Pricing starts at $2.25-$2.95 USD per server/month or $25 USD per year. More details can be found on the official website.