A Patch Train Solution for OCI OS Management with OCI Ansible Modules With the OS Management Service (OSMS) and i-ansible-collection , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides a service to fully automate the patching of your Oracle Linux or Windows instances. It allows you to organize your systems into groups and then schedule jobs to apply the latest updates to all these systems. There is a wide range of predefined software sources to choose from, providing the full wealth of the Oracle yum repositories to your Linux systems. In the simplest case, this will keep all your systems up to date with the latest and consistent patches all the time using Ansible modules. In many cases, this eliminates the burden of constantly chasing security updates and keeping your fleet patched. However, sometimes your patching goals are more complex than just having the "latest and greatest" all the time. In this article, I'll describe one such scenario and a s...