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Rolling Update Windows-like systems — Ansible module win_updates
How to automate the Windows Update process and rebook if needed on Windows-like systems using Ansible Playbook and win_updates module.
5 min readMar 16, 2022
How to perform Rolling Update with Ansible on Windows-like systems?
Every System Administrator knows how important is to maintain an up-to-date fleet in a consistent state.
I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot
Ansible Rolling Update Windows-like systems
- `
ansible.windows.win_updates
` - Download and install Windows updates
Today we’re talking about the Ansible module `win_updates
`.
The full name is `ansible.windows.win_updates
`, which means that is part of the collection of modules specialized to interact with Windows target host.
It’s a module pretty stable and out for years.