Ubuntu Update Playbook

Summary

Simple Ansible playbook for updating Ubuntu Servers. But, this will probably work on Ubuntu Desktop as well.

The objective of this playbook is to have the capability to update multiple instances of Ubuntu Server at a time. You just add the server to your inventory file and off you go.

The repository for my Ubuntu update playbook can be found below.

• Ubuntu Update Playbook

I’ve been meaning to automate tasks in multiple ways for various servers for a long time. So, I thought this would be the best starting point for this.

CAUTION

One thing I wouldn’t recommend doing is running this Ansible playbook on servers that need to be updated in a specific order. As I learn more about Ansible playbooks, I will try to figure out a way to prioritize or create a dependancy for updating servers in a certain order. I’m thinking about this mostly for those that have database replicas that need to be rebooted at the same time.

For now. Updates will be performed in order or all at once as listed in the inventory file.

Confirmed Tests

This playbook has successfully run on the following versions of Ubuntu.

• Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS amd64

What The Playbook Does

This playbook will perform the following tasks on the servers in the hosts file.

• Update the apt cache.
• Perform a dist upgrade and force updates.
• Reboot the server and confirm it comes back up.

This is a very simple playbook. If you don’t mind checking your services later. This may be a good fit. Feel free to cater it to you. One thing I would recommend post-run is to check the configuration and the status of your servers when the playbook completes.