Ansible playbook: yum update

For use with eg CentOS.

Assumes you have a file /etc/ansible/hosts with groups and members already configured.

A properly formatted .yml-file can be found at the end of the article.

yum.update.yml

---
- hosts: centos-cli
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
 
# Alternative 1
# - name: upgrade all packages
#     yum: 
#       name'*'
#       state=latest
#       exclude=kmod*,nvidia*
#
# Alternative 2
# - name: upgrade some packages
# yum: name='tzdata' state=latest; name='firefox' state=latest
#
# On error pending transactions clean up remote host with 
# yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only
#
# Alternative 3
 - name: upgrade some packages v2
 yum: name={{ item }} state=latest
 with_items:
 - tzdata*
 - firefox
...