This is a generic cron module for puppet.

This contains the main cron class. It can be passed $hiera_hash and $purge parameters which should both be booleans, see below for details. The other classes are also included from this so you can simply include cron.

The parameter $jobs is taken and wrapped with the create_resources function as such this simply takes cron jobs with the standard puppet cron type attributes.

There is also a $defaults parameter intended to minimise boiler plate. This enables default attributes to be set once and applied for all puppet defined cron jobs. In this class this is set to ensure the jobs is enabled and that root is the user to execute the jobs.

These are similar to the crontab class but differ in $jobs should only provide the contents of the job and the interval at which to run.

Note: Creating jobs via parameters for these classes requires parser = future.

This class also supports pulling files from the files directory of the module itself on the puppet master. For example placing a file in files/hourly would result in the client picking up that file in /etc/cron.hourly/.

If the $heria_hash parameter is true values for $jobs across all hierarchies are used so cron jobs can be defined at multiple levels. This allows for a base set of cron jobs to be defined at a low level of the hierarchy and more specific cron jobs to be defined further up the hierarchy closer to what is likely more relevant definitions. This is definable in each of the classes expect in the service class. If defined in the main cron class as true it will take precedence over definitions in other classes.

All classes with the exception of the service class take a $purge parameter which if set to true will cause puppet to remove any cron jobs that are not provided by puppet. If defined in the main cron class as true it will take precedence over definitions in other classes.

A basic example of adding some cron jobs in YAML.

# Add two cron jobs to crontab

cron::crontab::jobs:
  first_job:
    command:  '/bin/echo "This is run as root every 12 hours"'
    hour:     '*/12'
  second_job:
    command:  '/bin/echo "This is run as puppet every 12 hours"'
    hour:     '*/12'
    user:     'puppet'

# Add job to /etc/cron.daily/

cron::interval::jobs:
  once_a_day:
    command:  '/bin/echo "Today is $(/bin/date)"'
    interval: 'daily'

# Only allow puppet crontrolled jobs anywhere on the system

cron::purge: true

# Only allow puppet controlled jobs in crontabs ( e.g. /var/spool/cron/$user)

cron::crontab::pruge: true

# Only allow puppet controlled jobs in the periodic cron directories such as
# /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly and /etc/cron.monthly

cron::interval::pruge: true

This module depends upon puppetlabs/stdlib for validation checks.