Why don't you just set disabled: as a var, and then set that either
true or false on each server/group
as needed?

On 8 March 2017 at 16:27, Ed Greenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have a collection of load balanced web servers, and we have cron jobs
> spread across the server base.
>
> I would like to manage these cron jobs in Ansible.
>
> The current state is to have all the cron jobs on all the servers, disabled,
> and then to selectively enable the ones that need to run on each server.
>
> On my test server, I rolled out all the cron jobs as state=present
> disabled=true and got all the cron jobs, properly commented out.
>
> I can do a play as follows:
>
>
>     - name: cron Update Webmin
>       cron:
>         user: root
>         state: present
>         name: "Update Webmin"
>         minute: "10"
>         hour: "10"
>         day: "*"
>         month: "*"
>         weekday: "2"
>         job: "/etc/webmin/package-updates/update.pl"
>       when: ansible_hostname == 'web-node-1'
>
> But when I go into the playbook and change web-host-1 to web-host-2, that
> won't remove the job from web1.
>
> So my current thought is:
>     - name: cron Update Webmin
>       cron:
>         user: root
>         state: present
>         disabled: true
>         name: "Update Webmin"
>         minute: "10"
>         hour: "10"
>         day: "*"
>         month: "*"
>         weekday: "2"
>         job: "/etc/webmin/package-updates/update.pl"
>
>     - name: cron Update Webmin
>       cron:
>         user: root
>         state: present
>         name: "Update Webmin"
>         minute: "10"
>         hour: "10"
>         day: "*"
>         month: "*"
>         weekday: "2"
>         job: "/etc/webmin/package-updates/update.pl"
>       when: ansible_hostname == 'web-node-1'
>
> This should roll all the jobs to all the servers, then enable them only
> where needed.
>
> So, for a reality check, does this seem the best method?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed G
>
>
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