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Ask HN: What is your favorite open-source job scheduler

6 pointsby bohinjcover 6 years ago
Too many business scripts rely on cron(8) to run. Classic cron cannot handle task duration, fail (only with email), same-task piling, linting, ...<p>So what is your favorite open-source, easy to bundle&#x2F;deploy job scheduler, that is easy to use, has logging capacity, config file linting, and can handle common use-cases : kill if longer than, limit resources, prevent launching when previous one is nor finished, ...

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westurnerover 6 years ago
systemd-crontab-generator may be usable for something like linting classic crontabs? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;systemd-cron&#x2F;systemd-cron" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;systemd-cron&#x2F;systemd-cron</a><p>Systemd&#x2F;Timers as a cron replacement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Systemd&#x2F;Timers#As_a_cron_replacement" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Systemd&#x2F;Timers#As_a_cro...</a><p>Celery supports periodic tasks:<p>&gt; <i>Like with cron, the tasks may overlap if the first task doesn’t complete before the next. If that’s a concern you should use a locking strategy to ensure only one instance can run at a time (see for example </i>Ensuring a task is only executed one at a time<i>).</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.celeryproject.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;periodic-tasks.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.celeryproject.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;latest&#x2F;userguide&#x2F;periodic-t...</a>
IpV8over 6 years ago
Monit does many of these things. More for monitoring than scheduling, but you could easily make a script that handles the timing side of things.
InGodsNameover 6 years ago
Cloudwatch events.<p>I know it&#x27;s not what you want but that&#x27;s all i use.