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		rr808 on March 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cron best practices Cron was great, but in the new world of cattle not pets, its obsolete.

ckp95 on March 11, 2022 [–]

What do you use instead?

mmh0000 on March 11, 2022 | | [–]

Cron is dead, long live cron[0]

Fun fact, Kubernetes cronjobs are highly-available and fault-tolerant[1]

[0] https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cr...

[1] https://stripe.com/blog/operating-kubernetes

rr808 on March 11, 2022 | | [–]

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