Scheduling jobs

There are certain types of jobs that we need to execute periodically; taking a backup is one such job. Ansible allows us to schedule jobs at a set frequency or time.

How to do it...

1. We can use an existing project and template, or create a new one following the previous recipe.
2. On the Templates page, for the template that we want to schedule, we should click on the calendar icon.
3. A page with all the existing schedules will open. Since we are doing this for the first time, it would be empty for us. We need to click the +ADD button here.
4. Here, we can specify the NAME, START DATE, START TIME, and LOCAL TIME ZONE.
5. For daily execution, we can set the REPEAT FREQUENCY to Day and set the EVERY field to 1. If we want a task to be executed every alternate day, then this should be set to 2, and so on.
6. We can set an END to this schedule to Never, or after a certain number of occurrences, or even after a particular date.
7. Lastly, we should verify the schedule description to ensure that everything...