Running Ansible tasks periodically

ansible-pull works great for this.

basically you can use regular-SSH-ansible to set up ansible on a
crontab to run periodically against the latest checkout in a source
control repo (currently requires git).

It's documented a bit on the docs site (needs a bit more)

http://ansible.github.com/playbooks2.html#pull-mode-playbooks

And here is the setup script:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/playbooks/ansible_pull.yml
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/playbooks/templates/ansible-pull.j2

You can modify the cron tab for it to run as often as you like.

Thanks, ansible-pull looks like the way to go!