--- - name: Verify hosts: all gather_facts: false tasks: - name: Include vars ansible.builtin.include_vars: file: ../../defaults/main.yml - name: Check cron job file ansible.builtin.fetch: src: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root dest: /tmp/fetched - name: Check if cron job does exist ansible.builtin.assert: that: "lookup('file', '/tmp/fetched/instance/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root') is search('healthchecks.io')" fail_msg: "Cron job 'healthchecks.io' does not exist!" success_msg: "Cron job 'healthchecks.io' does exist!"