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Packages

With the osism.commons.packages role, it is possible to add packages on a node The parameters should be used in the inventory or in the environments/configuration.yml file.

The role is applied during the bootstrap. The role can be applied manually using osism apply packages.

The following packages are installed by default.

required_packages_default:
  - curl
  - dmidecode
  - ethtool
  - iotop
  - jq
  - lsscsi
  - ltrace
  - mtr
  - nvme-cli
  - pciutils
  - rsyslog
  - socat
  - sysstat
  - tmux
  - tree
  - whois

Additional packages can be added via the required_packages_extra parameter.

required_packages_extra: []

Distribution specific packages​

Debian​

With Debian, the packages listed in required_packages_distribution are installed by default.

required_packages_distribution:
  - command-not-found
  - debconf
  - debsums
  - htop
  - iftop
  - iperf
  - multitail
  - ncdu
  - pv
  - python-is-python3
  - selinux-utils
  - ssh

The apt_cache_valid_time parameter can be used to set the cache_valid_time paremter of the ansible.builtin.apt module. The module updates the apt cache if it is older than the cache_valid_time. The parameter is set in seconds and defaults to 3600.

CentOS​

With CentOS, the packages listed in required_packages_distribution are installed by default.

required_packages_distribution:
  - libselinux-utils
  - openssh

Upgrade of packages​

The upgrade_packages parameter can be used to configure the upgrade of packages. The parameter is set to true by default.