Ansible Role: packages

RHEL Package Management

Requirements

N/A

Role Variables

• packages_function_check: [true/false] - enable/disable Update Report function
• packages_function_install: [true/false] - enable/disable Install package function
• packages_function_update_all: [true/false] - enable/disable Update All packages function
• packages_function_update_advisory: [true/false] - enable/disable Advisory Update function
• packages_function_remove: [true/false] - enable/disable Remove Pakages
• packages_security_remove: [true/false] - enable/disable Critical Updates Only

Run

• packages_check: [true] - run Update Report
• packages_advisory: [Advisory ID] - install RHEL Advisory
• packages_all: [true] - install all Updates
• packages_install: [package1, package2] - install/update certain packages
• package_remove: [package] - uninstall certain packages
• package_remove_job: [UUID] - undo yum install by UUID produced by install/update process

Misc Settings

• packages_reboot: [true/false] - enable/disable auto Reboot in Update All

• packages_function_report: [true/false] - enable/disable Reports

• packages_function_alert: [true/false] - enable/disable Alerts

• ansible_archive_host: localhost - Host to store reports

• ansible_archive_user: someone - SSH user that has access to ansible_report_location

Dependecies

None

Example Playbook

    - hosts: localhost
      vars:
        packages_function_check: false
    packages_function_install: true
    packages_function_update_all: false
    packages_function_update_advisory: true
    packages_function_alert: true

    packages_advisory: RHSA-2017:2459
    packages_install: screen

- role: kurrier.packages

This will install advisory and install screen.

Test

ansible-playbook tests/test.yml -i tests/inventory

Plans

• Add support for Ubuntu/Debian

License

Licensed under GPLv3 License. See LICENSE for details.

Author Information

Nick Lalumiere