Ask HN: How do you manage your cron jobs?

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Hey people,

I am in the state where people don't know which cron jobs exists or in which machine they run or what they do.

I was thinking about using something like ansible as a central repository for cron jobs. We are a big company and we have no control when someone changes a cronjob or install/delete one.

What do you use for that ?

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I haven't had this problem, but I would consider switching to a task queue like Celery. It'll be more robust/reliable than cron, too.

You replace one task scheduler with another. How does this help in managing the tasks?

I was imagining you have a single Celery server with a shiny admin frontend, and each node connects to it and looks for tasks assigned to it.

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