ansible

Ansible Playbooks for maintenance

Requirements

1. Install Ansible (managed via Homebrew)
2. Configure .ssh/config with server details (managed in ../.ssh/config
3. Distribute SSH keys
4. Install Ansible requirements

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Use cases

Base packages

ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini default-config.yml 

Linux VMs Upgrades

The playbook will run apt update and upgrade, and also reboot the servers when a Kernel upgrade is required. The Ansible run waits for reboot completion.

Run the playbook

ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini upgrade_linux_vms.yml

Add more hosts

vim hosts

Ansible inventory

• ebpf-chaos.dev
• michi.fyi

Thanks

Linux upgrade playbook inspired by https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ansible-apt-update-all-packages-on-ubuntu-debian-linux/