Debian Upgrade

Upgrade a Debian OS.

Only upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy is supported and tested.

Visit Ansible Galaxy for usage.

Warnings

By default, the server is reboot after a successfull dist-upgrade, but you can disable this behavior.

I highly recommend to limit playbook execution to one server :

ansible-playbook -l ~myserver playbook.yml

Role Variables

• upgrade_from_debian: Debian release name from which to upgrade. Only used for checking.
  • Default: squeeze
• upgrade_to_debian: Debian relase name to upgrade to.
  • Default: wheezy
• pkgs_to_install_after_upgrade:
  • Default: empty

Role Tags

You can use tags to skip some hard tasks :

• reboot: the most important, you can skip reboot at the end of a successfull upgrade
• checks: if for some reason this role failed in middle upgrade, you can skip this tags to disable release checking
• purge: to skip packages purge (old kernels and apt-get autoremove
• custom: to skip installation of custom debian packages

ansible-playbook playbook.yml --skip-tags checks,reboot

Example Playbook

- name: DEBIAN DIST UPGRADE
  hosts: all
  gather_facts: yes
  serial: 1
  roles:
   - { role: debian-upgrade,
       pkgs_to_install_after_upgrade: [
       firmware-bnx2,
       ]
     }

License

MIT