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🎸❤️‍🩹 Allow adding auto-patch policies to (and removing from) existing installers for Fleet-maintained apps #28065

@eugkuo

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@eugkuo

Goal

User story
As an IT admin,
I want to patch software through Fleet
so that I can make sure host software is up-to-date to avoid vulnerabilities and offer the latest features to end users.

Key result

Auto-update (patch) any software without writing custom policies

Original requests

#21825

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Engineering

  • Test plan is finalized
  • Contributor API changes: No changes
  • Feature guide changes: At minimum changes to Automatically install software, potentially a new article
  • Database schema migrations: TODO

ℹ️  Please read this issue carefully and understand it. Pay special attention to UI wireframes, especially "dev notes".

QA

Risk assessment

  • Risk level: Low for regressions, med-high for implementation due to edge cases
  • Risk description: TODO

Test plan

Make sure to go through the list and consider all events that might be related to this story, so we catch edge cases earlier.

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Testing notes

Confirmation

  1. Engineer: Added comment to user story confirming successful completion of test plan.
  2. QA: Added comment to user story confirming successful completion of test plan.

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