Ansible Cron Role

cron is an ansible role which:

• installs cron
• adds cron tasks
• configures service

Installation

Using ansible-galaxy:

$ ansible-galaxy install franklinkim.cron

Using arm (Ansible Role Manager):

$ arm install franklinkim.cron

Using git:

$ git clone https://github.com/weareinteractive/ansible-cron.git

Variables

Here is a list of all the default variables for this role, which are also available in defaults/main.yml.

# cron_tasks
#   - '*/5 * * * *  /bin/sh /absolute/path/to/cron.sh'
#

# list of cron entries
cron_tasks: []
# service name
cron_service_name: cron
# start on boot
cron_service_enabled: yes
# current state: started, stopped
cron_service_state: started

Handlers

These are the handlers that are defined in handlers/main.yml.

• restart cron

Example playbook

- host: all
  roles: 
    - franklinkim.cron
  vars:
    crontab_tasks:
      - '*/5 * * * * /bin/sh /absolute/path/to/cron.sh'

Testing

$ git clone https://github.com/weareinteractive/ansible-cron.git
$ cd ansible-cron
$ vagrant up

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests and examples for any new or changed functionality.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

License

Copyright (c) We Are Interactive under the MIT license.