A cron-style job scheduler for docker

ckron is a versatile and straightforward tool to schedule operations on containerized applications.

ckron is heavily inspired by ofelia but attempts to improve on it by allowing multiple tasks per job. Using tasks, you can compose complex workflows with a few off-the-shelf images and follow Docker's motto of one process per container.

If you have Node installed:

$ npm i -g ckron

If you only have Docker installed:

$ docker pull nicomt/ckron

If you installed it in Node:

$ ckron daemon --config /path/to/config.yml

If you installed it in Docker:

$ docker run --rm -it \
      -v $PWD/config.yml:/etc/ckron/config.yml \
      -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
      nicomt/ckron daemon

NOTE: For production is recommended to use docker with a restart policy or create a service in something like systemd, upstart or forever. A service will ensure the daemon is restarted in case of an unexpected failure

The configuration consists of a YAML file, which is meant to have familiar docker compose like syntax. The main sections of the config file are the following:

Single operations that can be carried out by a job. Tasks currently supported are:

• run: Runs a command inside of a new container, using a specific image.
• exec: Runs a new command in a running container
• signal: Send a signal to the main process inside the container. Similar to docker kill --signal

See tasks reference for more documentation

Jobs are sets of tasks scheduled with a cron-like syntax. See jobs reference for more documentation

Notification channels for failed jobs. See notifiers reference for more documentation

Run with $ ckron daemon --config /path/to/config.yml

tasks:
  test-01:
    type: run
    command: printenv
    environment:
      HELLO: World
    image: ubuntu:latest
jobs:
  job-01:
    schedule: "*/30 * * * * *"
    on_error: ["email-dev"]
    run_on_init: true
    tasks:
      - test-01
notifiers:
  email-dev:
    type: email
    smtp_host: smtp.server.com
    smtp_port: 25
    smtp_auth:
      user: XXXXXXX
      pass: XXXXXXX
    to: dev@example.com
    from: '"Ckron Scheduler" <ckron@example.com>'