Ansible Role: Cron

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This role will deal with the setup of Cron.

It's part of the Manala Ansible stack but can be used as a stand alone component.

Requirements

None.

Dependencies

None.

Installation

Ansible 2+

Using ansible galaxy cli:

ansible-galaxy install manala.cron

Using ansible galaxy requirements file:

- src: manala.cron

Role Handlers

Role Variables

Configuration example

manala_cron_files:
  - file: app
    user: foo
    env:
      FOO: foo
    # Deprecated
    environment:
      - BAR: bar
    jobs:
      # Do foo bar
      - name: foo-bar
        job: "php /srv/app/bin/console app:foo:bar"
        minute: 0
        hour: 7

⚠️ In this example, you must explicitly set the minute option to 0 to have the job run at a specific hour, otherwise the default value * will run it every minute for an hour.

Using defaults:

manala_cron_files_defaults:
  user: bar # Will be applied by default to cron files
manala_cron_files:
  - file: app
    jobs:
      - name: foo-bar
        job: "php /srv/app/bin/console app:foo:bar"
        minute: 0
        hour: 7

Example playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - role: manala.cron

Licence

MIT

Author information

Manala (http://www.manala.io/)