ansible-role-needrestart

Role to install & maintain needrestart

Role Variables

Defaults:

# Admins should be informed via email
needrestart_notifyd_disable_email: 0

# All other notifications should be disabled
needrestart_notifyd_disable_write_tty: 1
needrestart_notifyd_disable_needrestart_session: 1
needrestart_notifyd_disable_notify_send: 1

# Restart services (l)ist only, (i)nteractive or (a)utomatically.
needrestart_action: l

# Email which will be notified
needrestart_mail_address: $NR_USERNAME

# Services which should be ignored
needrestart_ignorelist: []

# Services blacklisted as regex
# Example:
# needrestart_blacklist_rc:
#   - cron\.service
needrestart_blacklist_rc: []

# Blacklist binaries as regex
# Example:
# needrestart_blacklist_bin:
#   - /opt/.*/java
needrestart_blacklist_bin: []

# Custom needrestart scripts
# Example:
# needrestart_restartd:
#   - name: unbound
#     script: "systemctl restart unbound.service"
needrestart_restartd: []

Download

Download latest release with ansible-galaxy

ansible-galaxy install systemli.needrestart

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: systemli.needrestart }

Extended Variables Example

# Admins should be informed via email
needrestart_disable_email: 0 

## Restart services (l)ist only, (i)nteractive or (a)utomatically. 
needrestart_action: a

# Email which will be notified, when a service should be restarted 
needrestart_mail_address: admin@mydomain.com

# Ignore services below during automatic restart
needrestart_ignorelist:
  groupname:
     - servicename
  Databases:
     - mysql
     - mongodb
  Mail:
     - exim4
     - dovecot
  Webservers:
    - apache2

Testing & Development

Tests

Molecule, Docker and Github Actions is used for continous testing. On the local environment you can easily test the role with

molecule test 

This requires Molecule, Vagrant and python-vagrant to be installed.

License

GPLv3

Author Information

https://www.systemli.org