Puppet Cron setting $vairable as minute aswell as */ - variables

Question

This is hard to explain for me, however.
I want to push a time off set to puppet for a cron job.
define cron::job (
$url,
$time_offset,
$ensure = 'present',
$minute = 5 + $time_offset,
)
Then in my actual job I want to use */ as well as the minute variable. Is this possible? As my current implementation is failing and I can't seem to find the answer in the docs which suggests I'm going about this the complete incorrect way.
This is my cron job.
cron { "job":
command => "wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies https://${url}/ >/dev/null 2>/dev/null",
user => 'housekeeper',
minute => '*/$minute',
ensure => $ensure,
}
I would appreciate any feedback / suggestions.
Would I be better off just using a set minute rather than every 5 minutes for example?
The reason I want to do this, is I want to leave the cron jobs the same and just pass an offset to the class for each site.

Answer 1

This works:
define cron::job (
$url,
$time_offset,
) {
$minute = 5 + $time_offset
cron { "cron ${name}":
ensure => present,
command => "wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies https://${url}/ >/dev/null 2>/dev/null",
user => 'housekeeper',
minute => "*/${minute}",
require => User['housekeeper'],
}
}
user { 'housekeeper':
ensure => present,
}
cron::job { 'job1':
url => 'http://example1.com',
time_offset => 10,
}
cron::job { 'job2':
url => 'http://example2.com',
time_offset => 15,
}
Then
[root#centos-72-x64 ~]# puppet apply /tmp/foo.pp
Notice: Compiled catalog for centos-72-x64 in environment production in 0.21 seconds
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/User[housekeeper]/ensure: created
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Cron::Job[job2]/Cron[cron job2]/ensure: created
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Cron::Job[job1]/Cron[cron job1]/ensure: created
Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.05 seconds
And
[root#centos-72-x64 ~]# cat /var/spool/cron/housekeeper
# HEADER: This file was autogenerated at 2016-04-12 11:29:15 +0000 by puppet.
# HEADER: While it can still be managed manually, it is definitely not recommended.
# HEADER: Note particularly that the comments starting with 'Puppet Name' should
# HEADER: not be deleted, as doing so could cause duplicate cron jobs.
# Puppet Name: cron job2
*/20 * * * * wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies https://http://example2.com/ >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
# Puppet Name: cron job1
*/15 * * * * wget -O - --save-cookies cookies.txt --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies https://http://example1.com/ >/dev/null 2>/dev/null