In this episode, I show you how to update Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi using both command line and Playbook forms of Ansible.

Ansible CLI

Upgrade all the server_name servers.

ansible server_name -m apt -a "upgrade=yes update_cache=yes" -b

Ansible Playbook #name: Basic Update

• hosts: Ansible become: true become_user: root tasks:
  • name: Update apt repo and cache apt: update_cache=yes force_apt_get=yes cache_valid_time=3600
  • name: Upgrade modules apt: upgrade=yes

Manually run this line on specific RPI host

grep -E "^$(date +%Y-%m-%d).+ (install|upgrade) " /var/log/dpkg.log |cut -d " " -f 3-5

Sample Output pi@Ansible:/etc/ansible $ ansible-playbook update-basic.yml

PLAY [Ansible] ************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] **************************************************************************************************************************** ok: [10.0.1.193]

TASK [Update apt repo and cache] ****************************************************************************************************************** ok: [10.0.1.193]

TASK [Upgrade modules] **************************************************************************************************************************** [WARNING]: Could not find aptitude. Using apt-get instead.

ok: [10.0.1.193]

PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************************************************************** 10.0.1.193 : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0

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