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Author: FooBarWidget

ansible/files/20auto-upgrades

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+APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
+APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

ansible/hosts.ini

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+- name: "unattended-upgrades: Install"
+  apt:
+    name: unattended-upgrades
+    update_cache: yes
+    cache_valid_time: 600 # 10 minutes
+
+- name: "unattended-upgrades: Install config file"
+  template:
+    src: "50unattended-upgrades.j2"
+    dest: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
+
+- name: "unattended-upgrades: Activate"
+  copy:
+    src: 20auto-upgrades
+    dest: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

ansible/main.yml

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+// Automatically upgrade packages from these (origin:archive) pairs
+//
+// Note that in Ubuntu security updates may pull in new dependencies
+// from non-security sources (e.g. chromium). By allowing the release
+// pocket these get automatically pulled in.
+Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins {
+	"${distro_id}:${distro_codename}";
+	"${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-security";
+	// Extended Security Maintenance; doesn't necessarily exist for
+	// every release and this system may not have it installed, but if
+	// available, the policy for updates is such that unattended-upgrades
+	// should also install from here by default.
+	"${distro_id}ESMApps:${distro_codename}-apps-security";
+	"${distro_id}ESM:${distro_codename}-infra-security";
+//	"${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-updates";
+//	"${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-proposed";
+//	"${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-backports";
+};
+
+// Python regular expressions, matching packages to exclude from upgrading
+Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
+    // The following matches all packages starting with linux-
+//  "linux-";
+
+    // Use $ to explicitely define the end of a package name. Without
+    // the $, "libc6" would match all of them.
+//  "libc6$";
+//  "libc6-dev$";
+//  "libc6-i686$";
+
+    // Special characters need escaping
+//  "libstdc\+\+6$";
+
+    // The following matches packages like xen-system-amd64, xen-utils-4.1,
+    // xenstore-utils and libxenstore3.0
+//  "(lib)?xen(store)?";
+
+    // For more information about Python regular expressions, see
+    // https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html
+};
+
+// This option controls whether the development release of Ubuntu will be
+// upgraded automatically. Valid values are "true", "false", and "auto".
+Unattended-Upgrade::DevRelease "auto";
+
+// This option allows you to control if on a unclean dpkg exit
+// unattended-upgrades will automatically run
+//   dpkg --force-confold --configure -a
+// The default is true, to ensure updates keep getting installed
+//Unattended-Upgrade::AutoFixInterruptedDpkg "true";
+
+// Split the upgrade into the smallest possible chunks so that
+// they can be interrupted with SIGTERM. This makes the upgrade
+// a bit slower but it has the benefit that shutdown while a upgrade
+// is running is possible (with a small delay)
+//Unattended-Upgrade::MinimalSteps "true";
+
+// Install all updates when the machine is shutting down
+// instead of doing it in the background while the machine is running.
+// This will (obviously) make shutdown slower.
+// Unattended-upgrades increases logind's InhibitDelayMaxSec to 30s.
+// This allows more time for unattended-upgrades to shut down gracefully
+// or even install a few packages in InstallOnShutdown mode, but is still a
+// big step back from the 30 minutes allowed for InstallOnShutdown previously.
+// Users enabling InstallOnShutdown mode are advised to increase
+// InhibitDelayMaxSec even further, possibly to 30 minutes.
+//Unattended-Upgrade::InstallOnShutdown "false";
+
+// Send email to this address for problems or packages upgrades
+// If empty or unset then no email is sent, make sure that you
+// have a working mail setup on your system. A package that provides
+// 'mailx' must be installed. E.g. "user@example.com"
+//Unattended-Upgrade::Mail "root";
+
+// Set this value to one of:
+//    "always", "only-on-error" or "on-change"
+// If this is not set, then any legacy MailOnlyOnError (boolean) value
+// is used to chose between "only-on-error" and "on-change"
+//Unattended-Upgrade::MailReport "on-change";
+
+// Remove unused automatically installed kernel-related packages
+// (kernel images, kernel headers and kernel version locked tools).
+//Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Kernel-Packages "true";
+
+// Do automatic removal of newly unused dependencies after the upgrade
+//Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-New-Unused-Dependencies "true";
+
+// Do automatic removal of unused packages after the upgrade
+// (equivalent to apt-get autoremove)
+//Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "false";
+
+// Automatically reboot *WITHOUT CONFIRMATION* if
+//  the file /var/run/reboot-required is found after the upgrade
+//Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false";
+
+// Automatically reboot even if there are users currently logged in
+// when Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot is set to true
+//Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-WithUsers "true";
+
+// If automatic reboot is enabled and needed, reboot at the specific
+// time instead of immediately
+//  Default: "now"
+//Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot-Time "02:00";
+
+// Use apt bandwidth limit feature, this example limits the download
+// speed to 70kb/sec
+//Acquire::http::Dl-Limit "70";
+
+// Enable logging to syslog. Default is False
+// Unattended-Upgrade::SyslogEnable "false";
+
+// Specify syslog facility. Default is daemon
+// Unattended-Upgrade::SyslogFacility "daemon";
+
+// Download and install upgrades only on AC power
+// (i.e. skip or gracefully stop updates on battery)
+// Unattended-Upgrade::OnlyOnACPower "true";
+
+// Download and install upgrades only on non-metered connection
+// (i.e. skip or gracefully stop updates on a metered connection)
+// Unattended-Upgrade::Skip-Updates-On-Metered-Connections "true";
+
+// Verbose logging
+// Unattended-Upgrade::Verbose "false";
+
+// Print debugging information both in unattended-upgrades and
+// in unattended-upgrade-shutdown
+// Unattended-Upgrade::Debug "false";
+
+// Allow package downgrade if Pin-Priority exceeds 1000
+// Unattended-Upgrade::Allow-downgrade "false";
+
+// When APT fails to mark a package to be upgraded or installed try adjusting
+// candidates of related packages to help APT's resolver in finding a solution
+// where the package can be upgraded or installed.
+// This is a workaround until APT's resolver is fixed to always find a
+// solution if it exists. (See Debian bug #711128.)
+// The fallback is enabled by default, except on Debian's sid release because
+// uninstallable packages are frequent there.
+// Disabling the fallback speeds up unattended-upgrades when there are
+// uninstallable packages at the expense of rarely keeping back packages which
+// could be upgraded or installed.
+// Unattended-Upgrade::Allow-APT-Mark-Fallback "true";