Use cron syntax for CONTINUOUS audits

Registered by Vincent Françoise

As of now we use a period in seconds to schedule continuous audits. This works well but does not really give the flexibility that an operator might actually want. Therefore, we should also provide a way to express out scheduling needs via the cron syntax which shall give operators a fine grained control.

This change implies the refactoring of the API so backward compatibility should be guaranteed.
On the Watcher dashboard side, we should also provide an easy-to-use form to fill in this cron field.

We should also keep the cron syntax and the creation timestamp in the DB

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
Alexander Chadin
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Vincent Françoise
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Alexander Chadin
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for pike
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon pike-3
Started by
Alexander Chadin
Completed by
Alexander Chadin

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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/cron-based-continuous-audits,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/442388
    Add spec for cron based continuous audits

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/471379
    New cron type for audit interval

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/492808
    Add support for cron syntax

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