a thing I heard from ops: installing this library update breaks how we manage updates. so let us not update. and use the old libraries that have security issues and don't work with code. we can not change our configuration management tool or update it either. because we have been using it for 15 years.

You seem to be having a rough time with your devops team. They should probably be reminded that they are there to make your life easier!

What's devops??? Sorry, I've always been in small teams where we do everything... Not familiar with those terms

@figus DevOps (development and operations) is an enterprise software development phrase used to mean a type of agile relationship between Development and IT Operations. The goal of DevOps is to change and improve the relationship by advocating better communication and collaboration between the two business units

@linux-colonel actually the problem is with ops. I was appointed as for the devops role. these are the adventures of me trying to facilitate communication.