cron

Install cron and scedule jobs on your system.

GitHub	GitLab	Quality	Downloads	Version

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 needs to be prepared in CI this is done using molecule/resources/prepare.yml:

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

  roles:
    - role: robertdebock.bootstrap

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

Role Variables

These variables are set in defaults/main.yml:

---
# defaults file for cron

# The shell to use for running cronjobs.
cron_shell: /bin/bash

# The path to set for running jobs.
cron_path: /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# The address where mails should be sent to.
cron_mailto: root

Requirements

• pip packages listed in requirements.txt.

Status of requirements

The following roles are used to prepare a system. You may choose to prepare your system in another way, I have tested these roles as well.

Requirement	GitHub	GitLab
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:

container	tags
alpine	all
amazon	Candidate
el	7, 8
debian	buster, bullseye
fedora	all
opensuse	all
ubuntu	focal, bionic

The minimum version of Ansible required is 2.10, tests have been done to:

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

If you find issues, please register them in GitHub

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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