This playbook helps to apply updates to RHEL patches using yum

• By default, it updates all patches and restarts the server.

• There are 6 types of updates available:

  • All patches with restart
  • All patches without restart
  • Security patches only with restart
  • Security patches only without restart
  • Custom patches only with restart
  • Custom patches only without restart

• You should change the following variables only if the default settings don't meet your needs (e.g., in a group_vars file named patch_update):

  • security_only_required: "no" # set to yes/no
  • reboot_required: "true" # set to true/false
  • package_name: '*' # specify the yum package name
  • package_state: "latest" # options are absent, installed, latest, present, removed

• You need Ansible version 2.7 or higher to use the reboot module.