azure - Azure ML Compute Instance: How can I safely upgrade the default Azure Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to the latest LTS?

Question

I want to upgrade the default Ubuntu version that comes with the Compute Instance in Azure ML.

Anyone has any guide on safely upgrading to the latest LTS?

Answer 1

Any specific reason you want to do this?

Since there are some heavy dependencies (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/concept-compute-instance#contents), my guess is you have to try it yourself.

Create a new one and run:

$ sudo apt update 
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt dist-upgrade

Let us know what happened.

BTW: Are Compute Instance also Docker images? If so, the upgrade might be working, if not, there might be many drivers that need to be upgraded too. The ones from the GPU would be the easiest...