Is it possible to do a yum update via yum module?

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I believe the answer to my question is “No” since I don’t see it documented in yum - Manages packages with the yum package manager but thought I would ask. For example if I have gitlab-ce-8.14.3 and want to update to gitlab-ce-10.2.1 (latest) I’d do a yum update on CLI. The only way I’m able to do this in Ansible yum module is to remove the current version and install the new one.

Thanks!

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Set "state: latest" and yum will upgrade to the latest version.

If you read under the name in the docs it also explains how to do "yum upgrade".

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Yeah I understand that, and maybe my question was flawed. In my case I wanted to upgrade to “latest” but what if someone else didn’t. What if someone wanted to upgrade from gitlab-ce v8.14.3 to v9.4.2 (two versions behind latest) for example?

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I don't use yum with Gitlab, but usually it's just appending the version to the name, so something like name: gitlab-ce-9.4.2
You would need to check the correct version Gitlab is using on there packages.

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Gitlab is just an example, it can be any package.

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My answer still hold, just append the version to the name.