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Manage automated system updates
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Version information

  • 0.4.5 (latest)
  • 0.4.4
  • 0.4.3
  • 0.4.2 (deleted)
  • 0.4.1
  • 0.4.0
  • 0.3.1
  • 0.3.0
  • 0.2.1
  • 0.2.0
released Dec 14th 2015
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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'adamcstephens-systemupdates', '0.4.5'
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puppet module install adamcstephens-systemupdates --version 0.4.5

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adamcstephens/systemupdates — version 0.4.5 Dec 14th 2015

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Table of Contents

  1. Usage
  2. Reference

Puppet module for configuring systems for automatic package updates. This module provides a custom update mechanism which utilizes distribution package managers, allowing for a consistent update experience across supported distributions.

This module is designed to run from a cron task, and will only output on a failed return code from a task.

The following distributions are known to be supported:

  • CentOS/RHEL 5-7
  • Ubuntu 14.04

Please file an issue if you have successfully tested this on other apt/yum systems.

Usage

Default update mechanism is once a week on Wed at 4am with a random minute (0-59). These can be customized with class paramaters.

Manifest

class { '::systemupdates':
  day => 'Wed',
  hour => '4',
  minute => fqdn_rand(59),
  auto_reboot => false,
}

Hieradata

You can use Hiera to customize the configuration more granularly. Make sure to use single quotes if referencing the shell script variables

systemupdates::use_crontab: false
systemupdates::use_anacron: 'daily'
systemupdates::pkgtosvcrestart:
  jre:
    - elasticsearch
    - logstash
  elasticsearch: "elasticsearch"
systemupdates::custom_commands:
  - 'apt-get -y $APTARGS dist-upgrade puppet'
  - 'apt-get -y $APTARGS -f install'
  - 'apt-get -y $APTARGS autoremove'
systemupdates::pkgtosystemreboot:
  - glibc
  - openssl

Reference

Paramaters

###use_crontab

Whether to create a crontab entry for root.

Default: true

###use_anacron

Whether to create an anacron file. Must be one of hourly, daily, weekly or monthly if set.

Default: false

###auto_reboot

Wether to automatically reboot, if necessary, after completion of upgrade.

Default: false

###exclude

An optional array of packages to exclude from the update process.

Note: this only works on Red Hat and derivatives. Debian-based systems will need to utilize package pinning, which is not managed by this module.

Default: undef

###day

Day of the week for root crontab entry. See cron type

Default: Wed

###hour

Hour of the day for root crontab entry. See cron type

Default: 4 (am)

###minute

Minute of the hour for root crontab entry. See cron type

Default: fqdn_rand(59)

###logrotate_freq

How frequently to rotate logs. See logrotate documentation.

Default: monthly

###logrotate_keep

How many rotated logs to keep. See logrotate documents.

Default: 12

###disable_os_methods

Whether this module should try and clean up OS native methods for automatic upgrades.

Default: false

###pkgtosvcrestart

Package to service mapping which will automatically restart services if package is upgraded. See Hiera example above.

NOTE Keys off current date. Will restart services every time run during matching day.

Default: undef

###custom_commands

Site specific commands which should be run after the upgrade process. See Hiera example above.

Default: undef

###pkgtosystemreboot

Array of site specific packages which should trigger a system reboot. Currently only supports rpm systems.

NOTE Only supports RPM-based systems, and keys off current date. Will reboot every time run during matching day.

Default: empty

###custom_pre_commands

Array of site specific commands which should be run before the upgrade process. Similar to custom_commands.

Default: empty

Other

Please feel free to submit pull requests or file bugs/feature requests. I developed this module for my purposes, but hope others will find it of use.