Automating updates

In this section, we will use the Vagrantfile that was used in part of the first section.

Something of a slur, "automatic updating" is a sticky subject for a lot of system administrators, because historically, it was frequently the case that updates would brick a system.

This is less and less likely these days, and there are ways you can automate updates on your boxes without worry (though I still wouldn't do this in production, personally).

We will also discuss programmatically rebuilding systems.

How to do it...

Jump into each of your boxes in turn, in this section.

It is important to note that you might not want to automatically install updates at all, especially if you are in an environment...