Updater

Description / Use Cases

The updater service allows clients to be updated automatically. Changes in the Ansible playbook or inventory are applied automatically to all configured clients.

Requirements

The Ansible playbook must be available via a public Git repository.
Hosts in the inventory must be specified by their hostname, not by their IP address.

Activation / Default

To install the updater service on clients, set the variable misc_updater_repository to a valid Git repository URL. If not set (default: false), the service will not be installed.

To enable the updater service on clients, set the variable misc_updater_autostart to true.

Configuration / Variables

misc_updater_inventory
Name of the Ansible inventory file.
Type: String
misc_updater_inventory_password
Password for the inventory file if it is protected or encrypted via Ansible Vault.
Type: String
misc_updater_repository
URL of the public Git repository.
Type: String
misc_updater_branch
Name of the Git branch.
Type: String
misc_updater_autostart
Flag to enable the updater service. The updater starts 5 minutes after boot.
Type: Boolean
Values:
- false — default
- true

Example

All computers receive the updater service. Automatic updates are installed on all computers except those in the teacherlaptops group.

inventory.yml
all:
  vars:
    misc_updater_inventory: inventory-myschool.yml
    misc_updater_inventory_password: top-secret
    misc_updater_repository: https://git.example.com/it-team/lmn-client.git
    misc_updater_branch: myschool
    misc_updater_autostart: true

teacherlaptops:
  vars:
    misc_updater_autostart: false

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