scheduled-reboot

A simple wrapper role for the scheduled-reboot tool.

Scheduled-reboot provides a method to control scheduled rebooting of systems that can optionally:

• Run package upgrades immediately prior to shutdown
• Run pre-reboot scripts
• Run recovery scripts in response to any pre-reboot task failures
• Run post-reboot scripts
• Log everything
• Email when problems are encountered

Requirements

• Ansible 2+
• scheduled-reboot package. You must host this yourself, it's not on a public PPA

Role Variables

Note: Some variables are mandatory and should be set in group_vars. Other vars will simply no-op if unset.

Reboot schedule

Set the system reboot schedule time, in cron notation. Default: unset

reboot_schedule: '50 5 * * *'

Mail-to addresses

A space-separated list of recipients to send email to when problems occur. Default: 'root'

scheduled_reboot_mailto: root [email protected]

Email when scheduled-reboot is disabled

Send a notification email at script exection time when scheduled-reboot is disabled. Mandatory. Default: unset

scheduled_reboot_email_when_disabled: true

Cron job state

Ensure scheduled-reboot cron job is present or absent. Default: absent

scheduled_reboot_cronjob_state: absent

Scheduled-reboot package state

Package state for 'scheduled-reboot' package. [absent, latest, present] Default: present

scheduled_reboot_package_state: present

Post-reboot oneshot service enabled

Should post-reboot systemd one-shot service be enabled? [true|false] Default: true Controls the one-shot service that runs post-boot user scripts.

scheduled_reboot_post_reboot_service_enabled: true

Package Upgrade

Run package upgrades immediately prior to reboot [true|false] Default: false

scheduled_reboot_upgrade_at_shutdown: false

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - scheduled-reboot
  vars:
    reboot_schedule: '50 5 * * *'
    scheduled_reboot_cronjob_state: present
    scheduled_reboot_email_when_disabled: true
    scheduled_reboot_mailto: root [email protected]
    scheduled_reboot_package_state: present
    scheduled_reboot_post_reboot_service_enabled: true
    scheduled_reboot_scheduled_reboots_disabled: false
    scheduled_reboot_upgrade_at_shutdown: true

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2021 by Kodiak Firesmith, an ops guy at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Aside from GitHub, I'm most active on LinkedIn.