It is always recommended and a kind of best practice all the administrators would follow while installing a package. In this section, we are going to see how to update the cache with ansible apt You can notice that all we had to change is the state Let us use the same playbook we have used for installation for example here with a little modification - name: Playbook to install Apache
All you have to do use state: absent along with the package name of your choice. Here the state: present would tell ansible to make it available and installed. However, Here is one more playbook example that installs a Single Package or software named apache2 - name: Playbook to install Apacheīecome: true tasks: - name: Ansible apt install Apache We have already seen an example of how to install a package with ansible apt in the introduction. How to install a Package with Ansible apt We have collected some of the interesting and useful examples of Ansible apt module here. The preceding playbook example can be rewritten like this with force_apt_get - name: Ansible apt module examplesīecome: true tasks: - name: Ansible apt-get to get install nginx
Well Ansible apt module supports apt-get commands as well and you could use instruct ansible apt module to use apt-get using a parameter named force_apt_get So apt could do everything and more what apt-get could possibly do.Īs far as Ansible apt module is concerned, it uses the apt command over apt-get and it could fall over to apt-get automatically in some cases where necessary.īut, What If I want ansible to use apt-get over apt? The following statement from Debian blog would help us understand the difference between apt and apt-getĪpt is a second command-line based front end provided by APT which overcomes some design mistakes of apt-get.īased on this, You can understand that the apt module is fairly advanced than its predecessor apt-get Some of us including me would have most often referred ubuntu apt (aptitude) as apt-get we use both apt and apt-get interchangeably Here is the quick screen snip of executing this playbook. Same way here in ansible, the following playbook/play would do that for you - name: Playbook to install NGINXīecome: true tasks: - name: Ansible apt install nginx In typical Ubuntu machine, in order to install a package, you would execute the following command apt install nginx
How to install a Package with Ansible apt.
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