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Updating Domino and Ubuntu

It has never been easier to update Domino and the OS stack -- provided you use the right base OS.


Domino Autoupdate

Domino introduced Autoupdate in 14.5. It allows to update Domino with a couple of clicks.
Currently this only updates the Domino release, fixpack and interim fix.
Later it will potentially update other packages like Verse etc.

It works on Windows and Linux.

Domino Container Image

The container image supports all add-ons. And updates a Domino server in seconds.

• Built an image
• Eventually distribute it to a registry to be used domain wide (like a Harbor registry)
• Shutdown the container, remove it and start it with the new image -> Done
   

Using a container image makes every installation clean and reproducible.
You can build it once and test it in a QE environment before deploying it in production.

Updating Ubuntu

Every distribution is a bit different. My favorite distribution is Ubuntu.
It has a couple of benefits:

• Very current packages and a good coverage of packages without extra repositories
• Native ZFS support
• Easy to use firewall
• Optional commercial support
   

And there is also an easy release upgrade path from one LTS release to the next release.

I have just upgraded all my production servers from Ubuntu 24.04.x LTS to 26.04.1 LTS.

Even if you don't use Domino Autoupdate, it is still a good way to find out Domino version and also provides details about the Linux distribution, kernel and glibc version.

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