Cron installation

Configure different cron's

Requirements

This playbook is tested on centos 6, 7 and 8. Others are on the way

Role Variables

There is only 1 big array. This array is not set in the defaults/main.yml so you need to place it somewhere.

It's gonna look something like:

crons:
  - name: root
    mailto: "[email protected]"
    path: "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
    cronvars:
      - name: CRONKEY
        value: "SuperSecretKey"
    tasks:
      - name: facebook_export
        job: /usr/bin/curl --silent "https://www.ginojansen.nl/cron_facebook.php?key=$CRONKEY" &> /dev/null
        minute: "30"
        hour: "12"
      - name: google_export
        job: /usr/bin/curl --silent "https://www.ginojansen.nl/cron_google.php?key=$CRONKEY" &> /dev/null
        minute: "45"
        hour: "12"

Detailed explanation: The first part says on what user the crons should me installed on.

crons:
  - name: root

If you want to receive a mail about the cron's that's configured you can set the mailto variable. When it's empty it does not set this in the cron file. Same goes for the path variable.

crons:
  - name: root
    mailto: "[email protected]"
    path: "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"

If you need to have some variables you can create some like so:

crons:
  - name: root
    cronvars:
      - name: CRONKEY
        value: "SuperSecretKey"

to create a cron entry. The following can be done:

crons:
  - name: root
    tasks:
      - name: facebook_export
        job: /usr/bin/curl --silent "https://www.ginojansen.nl/cron_facebook.php?key=$CRONKEY" &> /dev/null
        minute: "30"
        hour: "12"

You can add the following variables to change the execution time:

minute - Default = *
hour - Default = *
day - Default = *
month - Default = *
weekday - Default = *
state - Default = present
disabled - Default = false
reboot - Default = false

Dependencies

This playbook does not require any other playbook to be run first. Just check if the playbook is compatible with you're distribution.

Example Playbook

An example playbook can be:

---
- name: Configure crons
  hosts: webservers
  roles:
    - ggiinnoo.cron

License

BSD

Author Information

Creator: Gino Jansen
Website: www.ginojansen.nl