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In April, a CrowdStrike update caused all Debian Linux servers in a civic tech lab to crash simultaneously and refuse to boot.
And then, you boot their servers from a Linux Live USB, run TimeShift to restore the last system snapshot, refuse the latest patch from Cloudstrike and they all lived happily ever after.
Good luck doing that remotely. Which is the sole problem with this most recent CrowdStrike bug.
Anybody who doesn't already have ipmi serial console access set up needs to put that on their list of acceptance criteria for remediation of this incident.