New to ansible so please be gentle - running ansible-playbook via crontab

[Tariq Hasan]

Hi

Please find below my playbook

 - name: Patch the server and Reboot

    hosts: tariq-test

    tasks:

      - name: Patch the server

        become: yes

        become_user: root

        tags: Patch

        shell: "yum -y update"

        exclude: kernel*,mongo*

        register: patchresult

      - name: Reboot the server

        tags: reboot

        become: yes

        become_user: root

        shell: "sleep 5 && reboot"

        async: 1

        poll: 0

      - name: Wait for the reboot and reconnect

        wait_for:

          port: 22

          host: '{{ (ansible_ssh_host|default(ansible_host))|default(inventory_hostname) }}'

          search_regex: OpenSSH

          delay: 10

          timeout: 60

        connection: local

      - name: Check the Uptime of the servers

        shell: "uptime"

        register: Uptime

      - debug: var=Uptime

I would like to able to run this via cron, but whenever I try, the job starts, according to the cron log, but doesn't actually do anything.

I've tried allsorts, nothing works.

07 11 * * * /bin/ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbooks/reboot.yml >> /var/tmp/reboot.log  >/dev/null 2>&1

06 12 * * * if ! out=`ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbooks/reboot.yml`; then echo $out; fi

14 12 * * * /bin/ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbooks/reboot.yml >> /var/tmp/reboot.log  >/dev/null 2>&1

Any ideas please?

Regards

Tariq

[Jonathan Lozada De La Matta]

what version of ansible are you on?

Regardless, you should use the yum module https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/yum_module.html and ( if on 2.7) https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/reboot_module.html. Should be able to work better and handled everything you described. I suggest you make sure it actually works first.

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[Tariq Hasan]

2.7.5

I'll look at the links you sent.

Thanks