Abstract:
The present disclosure broadly discloses an operating system (OS) management service for a cloud platform of a cloud provider (CP). The OS management service may be configured for receiving OS version information indicative of a plurality of OS versions of an OS available from an OS provider, receiving OS image information indicative of a plurality of OS images of the OS made available by the CP within the cloud platform, receiving VM OS information indicative of a plurality of VMs of the cloud platform that are running the OS available from the OS provider, and initiating a management a based on various combinations of the OS version information, the OS image information, and the VM OS information. The OS management service may be provided by an OS management server of the cloud platform, which may be implemented as a database server or other suitable system.