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Ansible reboot Linux machine or server with playbooks

last updated October 6, 2018 in CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, RedHat and Friends, Suse, UNIX

I need to reboot the VM or bare metal Linux machine/server using Ansible and wait for it to come back, but it does not work with playbook as descried here. How to reboot Linux server with Ansible? How do I reboot and wait for reboot to complete in Ansible playbook for multiple Linux servers?

Ansible reboot a Debian/Ubuntu Linux for kernel update and wait for it

last updated October 6, 2018 in Linux, UNIX

How can I reboot a Debian or Ubuntu Linux server/host remotely using an Ansible playbook for kernel update and wait for it to come back again?

How to prepare FreeBSD server to be managed by Ansible tool

last updated May 29, 2018 in FreeBSD, FreeBSD Jails (VPS), Python

I know Ansible manages Linux server using SSH by default. I thought FreeBSD servers are running in the cloud are no exception. However, I ran into problems. I am unable to manage freshly created FreeBSD server using Ansible DevOps/IT automation tool. How can I manage my FreeBSD server using Ansible?

I am trying to use ansible apt autoremove option but it is not working. I wanted to remove all unused Linux kernel and unwanted package dependency with the apt command/apt-get command. How can I run sudo apt-get autoremove on remote Ubuntu/Debian Linux servers with ansible?

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Ansible reboot Linux machine or server with playbooks

Ansible reboot a Debian/Ubuntu Linux for kernel update and wait for it

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