Ansible Role: Upgrade

Upgrade software on remote machine. Can reboot machine after upgrade if required.

Allowed types of upgrade:

• safe - performs an aptitude safe-upgrade
  • Upgrades currently installed packages
  • Can install new packages to resolve new dependencies
  • Never removes packages
• full - performs an aptitude full-upgrade
  • Upgrades currently installed packages
  • Can install new packages to resolve new dependencies
  • Remove currently installed packages if this is needed to upgrade the system as a whole
• dist - performs an apt-get dist-upgrade
  • Same as full

Install

ansible-galaxy install Furdarius.upgrade

Variables

All variables can be found in defaults/main.yml

Playbook example

---
- hosts: all
  become: true
  roles:
    - upgrade
  vars:
    upgrade_apt_cache: 3600
    upgrade_type: safe
    upgrade_reboot: false
    upgrade_required_packages:
      - software-properties-common
      - python-software-properties