needrestart
ansible-role-needrestart
Role to install & maintain needrestart
Role Variables
Defaults:
# Admins should be informed via email
needrestart_notifyd_disable_email: 0
# All other notifications should be disabled
needrestart_notifyd_disable_write_tty: 1
needrestart_notifyd_disable_needrestart_session: 1
needrestart_notifyd_disable_notify_send: 1
# Restart services (l)ist only, (i)nteractive or (a)utomatically.
needrestart_action: l
# Email which will be notified
needrestart_mail_address: $NR_USERNAME
# Services which should be ignored
needrestart_ignorelist: []
# Services blacklisted as regex
# Example:
# needrestart_blacklist_rc:
# - cron\.service
needrestart_blacklist_rc: []
# Blacklist binaries as regex
# Example:
# needrestart_blacklist_bin:
# - /opt/.*/java
needrestart_blacklist_bin: []
# Custom needrestart scripts
# Example:
# needrestart_restartd:
# - name: unbound
# script: "systemctl restart unbound.service"
needrestart_restartd: []
Download
Download latest release with ansible-galaxy
ansible-galaxy install systemli.needrestart
Example Playbook
- hosts: servers
roles:
- { role: systemli.needrestart }
Extended Variables Example
# Admins should be informed via email
needrestart_disable_email: 0
## Restart services (l)ist only, (i)nteractive or (a)utomatically.
needrestart_action: a
# Email which will be notified, when a service should be restarted
needrestart_mail_address: [email protected]
# Ignore services below during automatic restart
needrestart_ignorelist:
groupname:
- servicename
Databases:
- mysql
- mongodb
Mail:
- exim4
- dovecot
Webservers:
- apache2
Testing & Development
Tests
Molecule, Docker and Github Actions is used for continous testing. On the local environment you can easily test the role with
molecule test
This requires Molecule, Vagrant and python-vagrant
to be installed.
License
GPLv3
Author Information
About
Install and maintain needrestart software, to check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. Contains tests for Molecule.
Install
ansible-galaxy install systemli/ansible-role-needrestart
License
gpl-3.0
Downloads
8395
Owner
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