Show HN: Ereb – Cron with web interface and Slack notifications

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4 points·nimdraug··3 comments

I was always frustrated by system crond. If you have to run a lot of cron tasks on your server, you understand my problem. No web interface, no history, no good notifications, nothing. I tried several projects like Minicron and Juicebox, but always have some troubles and bugs.

Then I decided to make my own, lightweight and easy installable. After almost a year of development I wanna show it someone else! It's still rather ugly, but it works. We use in production and make thousands of task runs. And it has Slack notification about failed tasks :)

Honestly I have absolutely no idea how to make proper open source products. But my company had a problem and I solved it with ereb. Hopefully someone have the same problem and ereb can help there, too.

Any kind of feedback is really welcome, even "hey, dude, it's bullshit, no one need it".

Thanks

I don't know... Jenkins?

I mean, it is battle tested, has all the features you mention, plus pipeline of tasks, is extensible, can be clustered if needed, and, as a bonus, can serve as a CI as well.

The only downside I see could be the memory footprint, or the fact that you might despise Java.

Mm, was always thinking that Jenkins is a perfect tool for build automation, deploy or CI. And it really looks like overkill for our problem. We don't need pipelines, only single tasks like data aggregation, sending notifications, transferring data. So I tried to make a really simple solution. But thanks for mentioning Jenkinks, never thought about it that way

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