Puppet sysupdate module

This module provides mechanism for automatic system updates initiated by Puppet.

Requirements

Module has been tested on:

• Puppet 3.4
• Debian and Red Hat family systems

Required modules:

• stdlib (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib)

Quick Start

Enable system updates

include sysupdate

Full configuration options:

class { 'sysupdate':
  enabled           => false|true,                        # enable automatic updates
  on_reboot         => false|true,                        # enable updates on reboot
  force             => false|true,                        # force run update regularly
  packages          => array,                             # packages override
  command           => '...',                             # update command override
  command_on_reboot => '...',                             # update command on reboot
  schedule          => 'sysupdate',                       # override exec's schedule name
  period            => hourly|daily|weekly|monthly|never, # schedule period
  range             => '...',                             # schedule range
  timeout           => 300,                               # update command timeout
}

Facts

• sysupdate_reboot (e.g. false, true if machine should be rebooted now)
• sysupdate_count (number of pending updates)

CERIT Scientific Cloud, support@cerit-sc.cz

2020-02-06 - Release 0.9.3

Update for Puppet 6

Fixes

• remove deprecated timeout option

2017-06-03 - Release 0.9.2

Update for Puppet 4

2016-04-13 - Release 0.9.1

Parametrized update command on reboot.

Features

• Parametrized $command_on_reboot for system update on reboot

2015-09-22 - Release 0.9.0

Summary

Initial release.