I 2nd Michael's comment.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 11:37 AM Michael Mullay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sathya,
>
> You could get a list of current packages via 'yum list' or whatever
> package manager, then use that as the list of packages as the variable, and
> do something like the following. Maintaining and parsing that 'master' list
> however might be quite cumbersome.
>
> name: remove unwanted packages
> package:
> name: "{{ item }}"
> state: absent
> when item not in good_packages
>
> Of course the simpler and saner way would be to just restrict people from
> installing packages in the first place. ;)
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 10:44 AM Sathya Narayanan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am new to ansible and I would like to understand or get some ideas
>> about how to use ansible to maintain standard operating system environment.
>>
>> For example : I would like to have ansible to check all my existing OS
>> (Amazon Linux) to see if there are any additional package installed.
>>
>> The idea is to have a list of rpm names as standard packages, and ansible
>> should monitor if all my systems are having only the list of approved rpms.
>> In case of any extra rpms installed by any of the engineer, then ansible
>> should automatically remove it.
>>
>> Not sure, if I have explained my ask clear, but the idea is to have
>> ansible maintain software inventory (approved software) and any
>> unauthorized software installed, then it should notify via email and remove
>> that software.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sathya.R
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