ansible-role: dnf-automatic

This role installs, configures and activates dnf-automatic via Ansible on hosts which use the dnf package manager. A possible use case is the automatic installation of security updates.

See https://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/automatic.html for more information about dnf-automatic.

Requirements

In order for Ansible to work (on Fedora based hosts), it is necessary to have the packages python2, python2-dnf and libselinux-python installed.

Role Variables

The variable names are mostly self-explanatory. Beside the fact that the names are role-name prefixed, the names are identical to the preferences for the dnf-automatic configuration file. See https://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/automatic.html#configuration-file-format for details.

In particular, the following variables (including their default values) are used:

dnf_automatic_apply_updates: yes
dnf_automatic_download_updates: yes
dnf_automatic_upgrade_type: security
dnf_automatic_random_sleep: 300
dnf_automatic_emit_via: stdio
dnf_automatic_system_name: "{{ ansible_nodename }}"
dnf_automatic_email_from: root
dnf_automatic_email_to: root
dnf_automatic_email_host: localhost

dnf_automatic_base_overrides: {}

This default configuration sets dnf-automatic up to automatically download and install only security updates.

Note that the dnf_automatic_base_overrides dictionary can be used to override arbitrary preferences from the base dnf configuration file for dnf-automatic.

Dependencies

No dependencies needed.

Example Playbook

This example playbook deploys dnf-automatic on all hosts but is configured such that all updates are installed automatically, not only security updates.

- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  roles:
  - { role: exploide.dnf-automatic, dnf_automatic_upgrade_type: default }

License

MIT