cron

Install cron and scedule jobs on your system.

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Example Playbook

This example is taken from molecule/resources/converge.yml and is tested on each push, pull request and release.

---
- name: converge
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.cron

The machine may need to be prepared using molecule/resources/prepare.yml:

---
- name: prepare
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap

For verification molecule/resources/verify.yml runs after the role has been applied.

---
- name: Verify
  hosts: all
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.cron
      cron_jobs:
        - name: requested job
          job: "ls -alh > /dev/null"
        - name: requested job by the minute
          minute: "23"
          job: "ls -alh > /dev/null"
        - name: requested job by the hour
          hour: "23"
          job: "ls -alh > /dev/null"
        - name: requested job by the weekday
          weekday: "1"
          job: "ls -alh > /dev/null"
        - name: requested job by specific user
          hour: "23"
          job: "ls -alh > /dev/null"
          user: "root"
        - name: requested job every 5 minutes
          minute: "*/5"
          job: "ls -alh > /dev/null"

Also see a full explanation and example on how to use these roles.

Requirements

• Access to a repository containing packages, likely on the internet.
• A recent version of Ansible. (Tests run on the current, previous and next release of Ansible.)

The following roles can be installed to ensure all requirements are met, using ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml:

---
- robertdebock.bootstrap

Context

This role is a part of many compatible roles. Have a look at the documentation of these roles for further information.

Here is an overview of related roles:

Compatibility

This role has been tested on these container images:

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.9, tests have been done to:

• The previous version.
• The current version.
• The development version.

Testing

Unit tests are done on every commit, pull request, release and periodically.

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

Testing is done using Tox and Molecule:

Tox tests multiple ansible versions. Molecule tests multiple distributions.

To test using the defaults (any installed ansible version, namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest):

molecule test

# Or select a specific image:
image=ubuntu molecule test
# Or select a specific image and a specific tag:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox

Or you can test multiple versions of Ansible, and select images: Tox allows multiple versions of Ansible to be tested. To run the default (namespace: robertdebock, image: fedora, tag: latest) tests:

tox

# To run CentOS (namespace: `robertdebock`, tag: `latest`)
image="centos" tox
# Or customize more:
image="debian" tag="stable" tox

License

Apache-2.0

Contributors

I'd like to thank everybody that made contributions to this repository. It motivates me, improves the code and is just fun to collaborate.

• cadusk
• RealOrangeOne

Author Information

Robert de Bock

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