Puppet Class: managedmac::cron

Defined in:
manifests/cron.pp

Overview

Class: managedmac::cron

Dynamically create Puppet Cron resources using the Puppet built-in ‘create_resources’ function.

We do some validation of data, but the usual caveats apply: garbage in, garbage out.

Parameters

jobs

This is a Hash of Hashes. The hash should be in the form { title => { parameters } }. See tinyurl.com/7783b9l, and the examples below for details. Type: Hash

defaults

A Hash that defines the default values for the resources created. See tinyurl.com/7783b9l, and the examples below for details. Type: Hash

Variables

Not applicable

Examples

This class was designed to be used with Hiera. As such, the best way to pass options is to specify them in your Hiera datadir:

# Example: defaults.yaml

managedmac::cron::jobs:

logrotate:
  command: '/usr/sbin/logrotate'
  user:    'root'
  hour:    2
  minute:  0

Then simply, create a manifest and include the class…

# Example: my_manifest.pp
include managedmac::cron

If you just wish to test the functionality of this class, you could also do something along these lines:

# Create some Hashes
$defaults = { user => 'root', hour => 2, minute => 0 }
$jobs = {
   'logrotate' => { 'command' => '/usr/bin/who > /tmp/who.dump' },
}

class { 'managedmac::cron':
  jobs     => $jobs,
  defaults => $defaults,
}

Authors

Brian Warsing <bcw@sfu.ca>

Copyright 2015 Simon Fraser University, unless otherwise noted.

Parameters:

  • jobs (Any) (defaults to: {})
  • defaults (Any) (defaults to: {}) 


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# File 'manifests/cron.pp', line 67

class managedmac::cron (

  $jobs     = {},
  $defaults = {},

) {

  unless empty ($jobs) {

    validate_raw_constructor ($jobs)
    validate_hash ($defaults)
    create_resources(cron, $jobs, $defaults)

  }

}