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    Ubuntu Update Playbook: Setup

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    Dependancies

    This seems to work best with the following Ansible version.

    Clone Repository

    Repository can be cloned using the following command.

    git clone https://github.com/n3s0/ubuntu-update-playbook.git

    Configuring User

    An ansible user needs to be configured in the vars. This will be used to SSH into the server.

    One thing that I would recommend it to use key authentication so you don’t have to worry about storing credentials for your servers.

    Add Servers To Inventory

    Servers will need to be added to the hosts file in the project root. This can be accomplished by editing the hosts file and adding them one line at a time in servers.

    Below is an example:

    [servers]
localhost
til-inf-01