Step4: Apply security patchup run playbook with variable Security 'skip_reason': 'Conditional result was False',īelow you can check packages installed or not. 'All packages providing sssd are up to date',īut we get failed for 'ansible_loop_var': 'item', 'All packages providing httpd are up to date',

'All packages providing nmap are up to date', It skipped for iftop coz package is not installed.

Coz our server have only httpd, nmap and sssd packages are installed. If you see in the above results, we get 3 success and one skipping. name: Server is getting FULL SECUIRTY PATCHUP ONLY - SECURITY name: Display installed packages result name: Redhat and Centos Server selective Packages Patchups Step2: Create Playbook for Selective Package UpdateĬreate Playbook, I am using name 'redhat-selective-packages-security.yml' redhat-playbooks]# vim redhat-selective-packages-security.yml.

Switch to your playbooks directory: ~]# cd redhat-playbooks/Ĭreate directory for variable, here I am using 'vars' redhat-playbooks]# mkdir vars/Ĭreate variables file, here I am creating as 'packages' redhat-playbooks]# vi vars/packages.yml. Step1: Create variables files for package list Applying Security Updates only - passing with variables if required to have full Security Patchup.Updating list of packages which are installed only.Variable name: myvar (it have list of packages) Importing list of packages need to be Patchup using variable in directory:.Gather the rpm packages installed using facts module : package_facts.This page explains how to run yum update -security or yum update package-name via Ansible. This module can use to install, remove, update on the remote servers for package management. We can use yum module of Ansible to manages yum packages for RHEL/CentOS based Linux distros. Keeping your system up to date and applying all security patches is an essential task for sysadmins and developers. In this playbook we are going to do Security Patchup and Selective Package Updates. Ansible playbook to Patchup Selective Packages on RHEL 7 / CentOS servers

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