An Ansible Adventure: Using the Python API to list unmanaged packages

2020-07-11

I’ve been trying to get into the habit of managing an ansible playbook to keep track of any manual installations or config tweaks I do on my local machine. No matter how vigilant you are though, there will always be packages you install that slip through the cracks. It would be great for example if you could run an ansible playbook which runs all the relevant install tasks, and then provides you a list of these “unmanaged packages” that are not handled by the playbook: