Automatic Updates

Automatic updates are disabled by default.

To verify this, run the status command.

root@photon-host-def [ ~ ]# rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: disabled
Deployments:
* ostree://photon-1:photon/3.0/x86_64/minimal
                   Version: 3.0_minimal.1 (2019-09-16T09:51:33Z)
                BaseCommit: 28dc49ecb4604c0bc349e4445adc659491a1874c01198e6253a261f4d59708b7
           LayeredPackages: createrepo_c rpm wget

Enable Automatic Updates

1. Run the following command:

$ systemctl restart rpm-ostreed

1. To enable automatic background updates, edit the /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf, and include the below lines in the Daemon section:

   [Daemon]
   AutomaticUpdatePolicy=stage
   #IdleExitTimeout=60
   

2. Run the following commands:

   $ systemctl reload rpm-ostreed
   $ systemctl enable rpm-ostree-automatic.timer --now  
   $ systemctl restart rpm-ostree-automatic
   

3. Verify that the automatic update feature has been enabled:

   $ rpm-ostree status -v 
         State: idle
   
         AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: last run 16min ago
   

4. On the server machine, perform another commit on the base tree.

Automatic updates are now enabled and will automatically update the host system.