BOSH Release for cron

This BOSH release is intended to allow you to add generic crontab entries to any existing BOSH deployment by colocating the cron job alongside your VMs.

Colocation Instructions

To colocate, ensure your job has the cron template specified:

instance_groups:
- name: myjob
  jobs
  - name: cron
    release: cron
    properties:
      cron:
        # a key-value map of any environment variables you want
        # set in the crontab
        #
        variables:
          VAR1: val1
          VAR2: val2

        # a list of key-value objects representing cron entries
        entries:

          # run a commmand already installed
        - command: /usr/bin/touch /tmp/test-command-cron
          minute: '*'
          hour: '*'
          day: '*'
          month: '*'
          wday: '*'
          user: vcap

          # ... or specify a script to install and run
        - script:
            name: touch.sh
            contents: |
              #!/bin/bash
              /usr/bin/touch /tmp/test-script-cron
          minute: '*'
          hour: '*'
          day: '*'
          month: '*'
          wday: '*'
          user: vcap

When deployed, this release will generate a crontab, stick it in /etc/cron.d/cron-boshrelease-crontab, and reload the running cron process to read the new crontab.