In this follow-up to Automate and deploy a JBoss EAP cluster with Ansible, we will explain how to maintain and keep those instances updated, again in a fully automated manner, leveraging Ansible and the Ansible collection for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP).
Indeed, it is critical to ensure that all JEE application server instances always be up to date, especially in regard to security fixes. Therefore, we’ll discuss not only how to apply patches to update the server but also how to perform an upgrade to migrate to a new major version.