ansible-role-cron

Installs & manages cron

Dependencies

Roles

None

Collections

None

Platforms

Supported platforms

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8¹
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9¹
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10¹
• RockyLinux 8
• RockyLinux 9
• RockyLinux 10
• OracleLinux 8
• OracleLinux 9
• OracleLinux 10
• AlmaLinux 8
• AlmaLinux 9
• AlmaLinux 10
• Debian 11 (Bullseye)
• Debian 12 (Bookworm)
• Debian 13 (Trixie)
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Fedora 42
• Fedora 43

Note: ¹ : no automated testing is performed on these platforms

Role Variables

defaults/main.yml

# list of cron packages (see vars/ for OS specific file)
cron_packages: []

# name of the cron service (see vars/ for OS specific file)
cron_service: cron

defaults/family-Debian.yml

# List of required OS packages
cron_packages:
  - cron

# Service name
cron_service: cron

# Configuration file
cron_config_file: /etc/default/cron

# Cunstom config lines to inset into 'cron_config_file'
cron_custom_config: []

defaults/family-RedHat.yml

# List of required OS packages
cron_packages:
  - cronie

# Service name
cron_service: crond

# Configuration file
cron_config_file: /etc/sysconfig/crond

# Cunstom config lines to inset into 'cron_config_file'
cron_custom_config: []

defaults/family-Suse.yml

# List of required OS packages
cron_packages:
  - cronie

# Service name
cron_service: cron

# Configuration file
cron_config_file: /etc/sysconfig/crond

# Cunstom config lines to inset into 'cron_config_file'
cron_custom_config: []

Example Playbook

molecule/default/converge.yml

- name: sample playbook for role 'cron'
  hosts: all
  become: 'yes'
  tasks:
    - name: Include role 'cron'
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: cron