Topic: lifecycle

• Checking an operating system's support lifecycle before automating against it

  Automating patch, upgrade or compliance workflows against a host that has already passed end-of-life produces false confidence: no more security fixes are coming regardless of what the automation reports. This methodology lists where each major vendor publishes lifecycle dates and how to fold an EOL check into a pre-flight step.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

Machine-readable: JSON