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A. MallettRed Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Study Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6861-2_15

15. Managing Scheduled Tasks with Ansible

Andrew Mallett1  
(1)
Peterborough, UK
 

In this last chapter of the RHCE Study Guide, we concentrate on the final small exam objectives where you need to know how to create and manage scheduled tasks with Ansible in Linux. This may be with either atd or crond, where atd is great for scheduling ad hoc Linux commands and crond for scheduling jobs that need to be run on a regular interval. For simplicity you can target just your Ansible controller, but we will target all hosts and include both CentOS and Ubuntu in the examples. ...

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