Yum update on multiple hosts but using a cusom repo file

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G’day all Ansible gurus,

I am very new to Ansible and I am learning through youtube videos as I am enquiring about this problem. It might be a simple one to some of you guys:

So I have multiple servers on my System. I have a VM by the name of YUM which has all the updates (updates folder) on its /var/www/html folder so it can be referenced from other systems if it was done manually (which is what i have been doing until now).

How do I specify this folder in Ansible to all other hosts?

For eg:

if my YUM server has all its updates in
http://192.168.0.5/rhel6pathes/april/

how do i get the other servers to look at this location and update it from here?

Thank you so much.

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Hi

You could use variable and reference that variable inside playbook.
I this way you don’t have to repeat on call same path mutiple time instead you can call that variable.

Thanks,
Vivek

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Vivek,

Could you actually show that to me in code? I am very new to this.

Thank you sir.

4

If you are really new then you are better off reading about the basics first, for instance

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_getting_started.html

This should give enough inspiration to get going with your task at hand.

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Hi
Could you please let me know how you doing it in manually ?

Thanks
Vivek

6

Good morning.

You could concept ansible as the automated execution of commands through SSH connection to the target hosts.

If you want to keep your approach you could:

  1. Expose the source files through SSHFS
  2. Mount on each host above directory

All those tasks could be automated through ansible.

Cheers.

Javier

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Hi Vivek,

On each machine, I would run yum update on it. My repo file points to the server

http://192.168.0.5/rhel6pathes/april/

Thank you.

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Hi Vivek,

On each machine, I would run yum update on it. My repo file points to the server
http://192.168.0.5/rhel6pathes/april/

Give the yum_repository module a try:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/yum_repository_module.html

Regards
         Racke

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Hello,

Based on the situation you define below, it sounds like you are wanting
to add a custom yum repository to some hosts. Let's look at how you
could go about doing it.

(1) You will need to create a yum repository file on your hosts. This
file will point to your custom repository on your Yum server. You can
achieve that via ansible module(s) or just copy the yum repository file
that you created to each host. You will need to do some research on how
to do it. As others have pointed out, the yum module is a good place to
start. I'm only offering two ways to achieve this step but there might
be others strategies.

(2) You will need to have ansible update your systems. I'm including
part of my upgrade playbook below to use as a reference (I'm on fedora
so using dnf instead of yum). You can have your hosts defined in your
ansible hosts file (/etc/ansible/hosts). I'm not sure your strategy for
organizing your hosts as there is a lot to say here but again some
investigation is needed.

Finally, you could combine step 1 and 2 into a single playbook to have
them be two playbooks depending on your needs. I hope this is helpful.

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Thank you so much!!! :slight_smile: