Hi all
I have an interesting situation which I think the very clever people here could probably help me with.
Our use case for ansible:
- We use ansible pull which runs a local connection. It allows us to scale nicely without the need for a master host.
- ansible pull is set in a cron job that runs every hour locally
- We want to be able to upgrade ansible in place ( the best practice is to nuke our current machine and replace with a fresh packer based image but sometimes that’s not the available solution )
- If we do this with ansible, then ansible will shoot itself in the head - a chicken and egg situation
Basically, I’m asking - are there any best practices that someone can recommend for upgrading ansible using ansible?
- Perhaps there is some cunning way using vitualenv?
- Or we can get ansible to trigger it’s own upgrade using cron or some other mechanism? ( The problem is then if ansible is running when this job is run … )
There is huge kudos for the people with a nice clean, elegant solution! 
many thanks in advance
Stephen