Role to install & maintain needrestart
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: []
Download latest release with ansible-galaxy
ansible-galaxy install systemli.needrestart
- hosts: servers
roles:
- { role: systemli.needrestart }
# 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
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.
GPLv3