--- - name: update all remote hosts hosts: allservers tasks: - name: update apt cache become: true apt: update_cache: yes force_apt_get: yes cache_valid_time: 3600 - name: update all apt packages become: true apt: state: latest force_apt_get: yes - name: check to see if reboot is needed register: reboot_required_file stat: path=/var/run/reboot-required get_checksum=false - name: Reboot the server become: true reboot: msg: "Reboot initiated by Ansible due to kernel updates" connect_timeout: 5 reboot_timeout: 300 pre_reboot_delay: 0 post_reboot_delay: 30 test_command: uptime when: reboot_required_file.stat.exists