There sure are a lot of mission-critical systems and companies hit by this. I am surprised that auto-updates are enabled. I read about some large companies/services in my country being affected, but also a few which are unaffected. Maybe they have hired a good IT provider.
A k8s variety. By Canonical. Screams production, no one is using this for their gaming PC. Comes with.. auto-updates enabled through snap.
Yup, that once broke prod at a company I worked at.
Should our DevOps guy have prevented this? I guess so, though I don't blame him. It was a tiny company and he did a good job given his salary, much better than similar companies here. The blame goes to Canonical - if you make this the default it better come with a giant, unskippable warning sign during setup and on boot.
