Ansible Automation | Operating System Patching for Multiple Linux Servers using Ansible

Operating System patching is one of the critical tasks for the systems engineers.

When to patch multiple servers to fix bugs or for regular updates , doing the manual way (In absence of Satellite etc) is very time consuming and need lot of efforts.

I have written a demo playbook on how Ansible can play role in the OS patching process.

[DavidA-xnon]

Three years later this video remains "Magnifique"...Thank you...

[bhakta_rg]

Nice one. please give the link to the playbook. The link you posted asks for facebook password which is not good :(

[petrichor]

Yogesh Patch management video is really superb, expecting more videos from you.One clarification how spacewalk is used with Ansible for patch management. Similarly kindly upload video explaining of Ansible components from scratch

[vasudevn]

Waav excellent video. Thank you so much for sharing it Yogesh...

[smartkids]

Thanks for sharing this video Yogesh. it's really great and very helpful.

[yogithakakarla]

Can we have this playbook available to download

[tusharkapoor]

Hi Yogesh, Its a nice video. But one questions here we need to stop and start the apps on the servers manually, can't we stop and start the apps through this same play book or can write diff one for that. Please tell.

[kanhaiyaa]

@Yogesh Mehta The provided playbook link is broken... Please can you help with the playbook. I am an explorer in the field and want to try this script for myself.

[kaustubhdhavale]

Thank you so much Yogesh. Video is really helpful.

[narasimhakoundinyavasapura]

Hi Yogesh...thanks for the explanation. This is really very nice I'm very new to this ansible playbook. After watching this video I have grabbed a lot of things on this playbook. Using multiple conditional statements. This helped to analyze more how to write a playbook. If you don't mind could please share me link of that play book where I can download it. The Facebook link is not working which is there in the description. Though this is a time taking, could you share that one for me.

Thanks and Regards

[mdshahidjamal]

Thank you Yogesh! it's realy usefull.

[damara]

Thank you very much Yogesh Mehta. Could you please share the playbook under introduction because many people don't have Facebook account. thank you sir

[immastimaker]

Hi Yogesh,

Thanks for the wonderful video about patching through Ansible. But how do I roll back the patching in the playbook. Can you please guide on this.

[lijinpp]

Thank you Yogesh, could you please comment, if we need to monitor the patching progress, which module needs to be added? no update on the yum.log on the management host ile when we apply the patches

[SukhwinderSingh-dmbm]

excellent video. Thank you so much for sharing it Yogesh

[bsanders]

Great video. Some package updates will require some (or many) processes to be restarted, but your reboot check is only for kernel updates. We reboot when either 1) the latest installed kernel does not equal the running kernel, OR 2) when "needs-restarting" returns > 0 status. This check will return a zero if the system does not need a reboot:
[[ `rpm -q --last kernel | perl -pe 's/^kernel-(\\S+).*/$1/' | head -1` = `uname -r` ]] && /usr/bin/needs-restarting

[vjj]

It was really helpful, how can we setup SSH connection between 100s of server, is there any automated way or manually we have to do?

[nishantbindal]

@Yogesh - Thanks for the video. Coild you please check playbook link as it is not working. I would like to have this playbook for learning

[AntiPakistani]

Hi Yogesh,

You're only checking running instance of apache/httpd, how about database process?
Awaiting for your reply.

Thanks in advance

- Suresh

Useful video. Can this be used for patching MacOS?