I want to update cron via puppet. Until today i have used only foreman for apply and never userd hiera. Following this howto First i have create dirs for hiera
cd /etc/puppet && mkdir -p hieradata/development hieradata/production/domains hieradata/production/fqdns hieradata/production/OBSOLETE hieradata/production/roles
Then I edit hiera.yaml
:backends:
- yaml :yaml: :datadir: '/etc/puppet/hieradata/%{::environment}' :hierarchy:
- fqdns/%{::fqdn}
- roles/%{::role}
- domains/%{::domain}
- common
Then I put in common.yaml
## Cron module
cron::enable: true # on startup
cron::ensure: true # running
cron::crontab_path: /etc/crontab
puppetheader: Managed by Puppet @ site.priv
cron::crontab_vars_hsh:
SHELL: /usr/bin/sh
PATH: /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO: ""
HOME: /root
cron::crontab_site_job_hsh:
'check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly':
- "*/35 * * * * script.sh >/dev/null 2>&1"
Hiera seems to work
hiera -c ../hiera.yaml cron::ensure
hiera cron::ensure
true
But after did puppet agent -t...nothing change and /etc/crontab is system default. I did also
puppet apply -e 'include cron' --hiera_config=/etc/puppet/hiera.yaml --verbose --debug
and return
Debug: Scope(Class[Cron::Crontab::Config]): Retrieving template cron/crontab.erb
Debug: template[/etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/cron/templates/crontab.erb]: Bound template variables for /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/cron/templates/crontab.erb in 0.00 seconds
Warning: Variable access via 'puppetheader' is deprecated. Use '@puppetheader' instead. template[/etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/cron/templates/crontab.erb]:1
(at /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/parser/templatewrapper.rb:77:in `method_missing')
Error: Failed to parse template cron/crontab.erb:
Filepath: /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/parser/templatewrapper.rb
Line: 82
Detail: Could not find value for 'package_name' at /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/cron/templates/crontab.erb:2
at /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/cron/manifests/init.pp:47 on node server.example.com
Error: Failed to parse template cron/crontab.erb:
Filepath: /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/parser/templatewrapper.rb
Line: 82
Detail: Could not find value for 'package_name' at /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/cron/templates/crontab.erb:2
at /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/cron/manifests/init.pp:47 on node centos.example.com
What i miss?
edit1: i add the .erb
## <%= puppetheader %>
# for <%= package_name %>
<% if (!crontab_vars_hsh.empty?) -%>
## Variables
<% crontab_vars_hsh.sort.each do |key,val| -%>
<%= key %>=<%= val %>
<% end -%>
<% end -%>
# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * username command-to-be-executed
<% if (!crontab_site_job_hsh.empty?) -%>
## Site Wide Jobs
<% crontab_site_job_hsh.sort.each do |key,val| -%>
# <%= key %>
<% val.each do |croncmd| -%>
<%= croncmd %>
<% end -%>
<% end -%>
<% end -%>
<% if (!crontab_node_job_hsh.empty?) -%>
## Node Specific Jobs
<% crontab_node_job_hsh.sort.each do |key,val| -%>
# <%= key %>
<% val.each do |croncmd| -%>
<%= croncmd %>
<% end -%>
<% end -%>
<% end -%>
Cron type
cron was a Puppet generic type up to Puppet 5, there's no need to install special module. For Puppet 6 and later cron_core
module is needed (the resource was moved to external module), e.g.
puppet module install puppetlabs-cron_core
The usage should be the same.
cron { 'myscript':
command => '/usr/bin/python myscript.py',
user => 'root',
minute => '30',
hour => '0',
}
If you want to use Hiera yaml, declare some jobs
cron_jobs:
'myscript':
command: 'm/usr/bin/python myscript.py'
minute: 30
hour: 0
date: '*'
month: '*'
weekday: '*'
user: root
in Puppet code:
create_resources (cron, lookup('cron_jobs', Hash, undef, {}))
Cron module
cron
module doesn't internally use Puppet's cron
type, it manages directly configuration files on disk. Thus the API could be slightly different:
---
cron::job:
'myscript':
command: 'm/usr/bin/python myscript.py'
minute: 30
hour: 0
date: '*'
month: '*'
weekday: '*'
user: root
and don't forget to add include cron
somewhere to node's definition.