I am a newbie in the Ansible world. I have already created some playbook and I am getting more and more familiar with this technology by the day.
In my playbooks I have always used the command yum to install and manage new packages, but recently I found out about another command package that claims to be OS independent.
Thus my question: What is the difference between them?
In particular, if I create a role and a playbook that I know that will be executed in RHEL environment (where yum is the default package manager), which advantage do I get from using the command package rather than yum?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ansible package module autodetect your OS default package manager (e.g yum, apt) from existing facts.
The fact environment variable which stores is "ansible_pkg_mgr".
Here is a command for same.
ansible localhost -m setup | grep ansible_pkg_mgr.
If you are using multiple OS in your environment, then instead of specifying package manager you should use package over yum or apt.