Installing Ubuntu/Debian updates manually for each machine individually is quite inefficient and you usually want to automate this task.
The following Ansible playbook installs Ubuntu/Debian updates on a group of machines in parallel.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 | --- - hosts : linux become: true tasks: - name : Update apt repo and cache on all Debian/Ubuntu boxes apt: update_cache: yes cache_valid_time: 3600 - name : Safe-Upgrade all packages on servers apt: upgrade: safe - name : Check if a reboot is needed on all servers register: reboot_required_file stat: path=/var/run/reboot-required get_md5=no - name : Reboot the box if kernel updated reboot: msg: "Reboot initiated by Ansible for kernel updates" connect_timeout: 5 reboot_timeout: 300 pre_reboot_delay: 0 post_reboot_delay: 30 test_command: uptime when: reboot_required_file.stat.exists - name : Remove dependencies that are no longer required apt: autoremove: yes |