Ansible Role: packages

DISCLAIMER

After this announcement I will not test on RHEL anymore.

This role manages the packages installed in the target.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

packages_install_epel: true

Whether to install EPEL repository. Only used for EL distros.

packages_installed: []
packages_removed: []

The packages that should be installed and uninstalled on the target.

packages_autoupdate: true

Whether to enable automatic updates

packages_dnf_automatic_type: security
packages_dnf_automatic_timeout: 60
packages_dnf_automatic_download: yes
packages_dnf_automatic_apply: yes

dnf-automatic settings. See templates/dnf-automatic.conf.j2

packages_unattended_upgrades_reboot: "false"
packages_unattended_upgrades_reboot_time: 04:30
packages_unattended_upgrades_mail_to: root
packages_unattended_upgrades_mail_on_error: "true"

packages_unattended_upgrades_repos:
  - origin=${distro_id},codename=${distro_codename}-security
packages_unattended_upgrades_blacklist: []
packages_unattended_upgrades_updateonly: true

unattented-upgrades settings. See the template templates/dnf-automatic.conf.j2 for more informations. NB the template uses Unattended-Upgrade::Origins-Patter config key. The syntax is different from Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- name: Example
  hosts: all
  vars:
    packages_autoupdate: false
    packages_installed:
      - zsh
    packages_removed:
      - nano
  tasks:
    - name: Include packages.
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: alecunsolo.packages

License

MIT

Notes

Testing with molecule (including the docker images used) is stolen from heavily inspired by Jeff Geerling. Watch his video (and the other ones as well).