Rolling Update Debian-like systems — Ansible module apt

Maintaining in a consistent state your fleet of machines is one of the most time-consuming tasks of the System Administrator. I’m going to show you how to perform Rolling Update with Ansible in Debian-like systems with some simple code.

How to perform Rolling Update with Ansible in Debian-like systems?

I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot

Ansible Rolling Update packages in Debian-like systems

Today we’re talking about rolling updates on Debian-like systems using Ansible module apt.

We already talked about this module for installing packages but we would like to consider another use case.

This module allows you to manage packages with the apt package manager.

Parameters

• name string