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Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   Ansible 2 Cloud Automation Cookbook Write Ansible playbooks for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295826
Length 200 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aditya Patawari Aditya Patawari
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Vikas Aggarwal Vikas Aggarwal
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Ansible and Cloud Management 2. Using Ansible to Manage AWS EC2 FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Amazon Web Services with Ansible 4. Exploring Google Cloud Platform with Ansible 5. Building Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure and Ansible 6. Working with DigitalOcean and Ansible 7. Running Containers with Docker and Ansible 8. Diving into OpenStack with Ansible 9. Ansible Tower 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Scheduling jobs

There are certain types of jobs that we need to execute periodically; taking a backup is one such job. Ansible allows us to schedule jobs at a set frequency or time.

How to do it...

  1. We can use an existing project and template, or create a new one following the previous recipe.
  2. On the Templates page, for the template that we want to schedule, we should click on the calendar icon.
  3. A page with all the existing schedules will open. Since we are doing this for the first time, it would be empty for us. We need to click the +ADD button here.
  4. Here, we can specify the NAME, START DATE, START TIME, and LOCAL TIME ZONE.
  5. For daily execution, we can set the REPEAT FREQUENCY to Day and set the EVERY field to 1. If we want...
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