Is it possible to run a playbook with a crontab

Question

I've recently started learning Ansible and was wondering if executing playbooks using crontab is possible? (Like schedule the execution of the playbooks).

Answer 1

Ofcourse you can run ansible playbook with crontab. Execute your ansible file in this way:

*/15 * * * *    if ! out=`ansible-playbook yourplaybook.yaml`; then echo $out; fi

Make sure of these and these should work like a charm

• job user has access to ssh private keys
• job environment is correct 
• there is no package mixture on the host