Running ansible playbook update does not update the version in Beszel dashboard

[gmsh-1]

I have an ansible script that updates the beszel agent on 2 Proxmox VEs. The issue is that the version does not update in Beszel dashboard until I SSH in each proxmox and run the update command manually.

Running the update manually (after I run the ansible playbook), the output is: beszel-agent 0.7.4 Checking for updates... Latest version: 0.7.4 You are up to date

The agent version is then displayed correctly in Beszel dashboard.

My ansible playbook: update_beszel_pve.txt

The output from running the playbook:

msg: |- beszel-agent 0.7.3 Checking for updates... Latest version: 0.7.4

Updating from 0.7.3 to 0.7.4... Successfully updated to 0.7.4

The playbook can help @flo82 from https://github.com/henrygd/beszel/discussions/268

[raifcoonjah]

Hi, took a snippet from my role to update beszel and updated your playbook:

---
- name: Update PVE Beszel Agent
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  become_user: root

  tasks:
    - name: Update beszel 
      ansible.builtin.shell: "/opt/beszel/beszel update"
      ignore_errors: true
      register: metadata_command_output
    - name: Update beszel agent
      ansible.builtin.shell: "/opt/beszel-agent/beszel-agent update"
      ignore_errors: true
    - name: Restart services
      ansible.builtin.systemd_service:
        name: "{{ item }}"
        state: restarted
      with_items: 
          - beszel-agent
          - beszel-hub
       ignore_errors: true
      register: metadata_restart_output
    - name: Display update command output
      debug:
        msg: "{{ metadata_command_output.stdout }}"

    - name: Display restart command output
      debug:
        msg: "{{ metadata_restart_output.stdout }}"

It upgraded the service successfully on my end:

root@h-MU-forgejo-prod:~# /opt/beszel-agent/beszel-agent update
beszel-agent 0.7.4
Checking for updates...
Latest version: 0.7.4
You are up to date

[gmsh-1]

Thanks for sharing your code.

Does it show the correct version in the Beszel dashboard after you update? This is the issue I have when i run mine.

[raifcoonjah]

Thanks for sharing your code.

Does it show the correct version in the Beszel dashboard after you update? This is the issue I have when i run mine.

OHH yeah.. It takes a few mins (or seconds) to show up.

[henrygd]

The agent version should update in the hub within one minute after successful update / restart of the agent.

Make sure you restart the beszel-agent service if the update was successful. Otherwise the same process with the prior version continues to run.

I added an option for automatic daily updates to the install script. It checks the output for "Successfully updated" and runs sudo systemctl restart beszel-agent if there is a match.

I don't use Ansible but hopefully that helps.

[gmsh-1]

Thank you @raifcoonjah, @henrygd.