How to disable Auto update for my instance

Question

How I can disable the auto-updates of an instance with Ubuntu 20.4 on Azure ?

Answer 1

Hello Wazen Shbair,

Thanks for your question

Ubuntu uses the unattended-upgrades package to handle automatic updates. You can disable this service to prevent automatic updates.

See and remove

sudo systemctl stop unattended-upgrades
sudo systemctl disable unattended-upgrades

#Then 

sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

See 3rd part doc: https://linuxconfig.org/disable-automatic-updates-on-ubuntu-22-04-jammy-jellyfish-linux

Also check Azure update management:

1.	Go to your VM in the Azure Portal.

2.	Navigate to Update management under the Operations section.

3.	If your VM is enrolled, consider removing it from the update deployment schedule.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/update-management/overview

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Regards,

Abiola