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eshnil

CloudCron - Hassle-free cron jobs in the cloud

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It's simple: Give us the name of a public Docker image, a command name, arguments & a cron schedule and we'll send the command's output to your desired email or webhook endpoint. No servers required!
Read introductory post: https://polyglot.network/cloudcron/

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eshnil
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Hi, this product came out of our own need of running tools like Google's Lighthouse for webpage performance analysis, uptime checks (like Pingdom) etc. The FOSS tools ecosystem is amazing but setting up and maintaining a server to run cron jobs is still too hard. We created a Kubernetes + Docker-based infrastructure to run any command in any Docker image at your preferred cron schedule, and send its output to either an email or a webhook endpoint. We're in beta right now and we're offering 3 cron tasks for a total cost up to 15$ for absolutely free. We plan to launch paid plans soon after. This is built by polyglot.network - a FOSS-only software development agency that fixes/enhances your open-source dependencies at a fraction of the cost of what it'd take you to do the same in-house. CloudCron will make it easy for you to use FOSS tools and if you need some bugs to be fixed or features to be implemented, you can get in touch with us at team@polyglot.network
Nemo

Going to try this for a few regular scrapers that I run

Pros:

Dead simple cron in the cloud. Reminds me of docker-run.com (now dead, https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...)

Cons:

Having support for docker-compose.yml or maybe something like a limited subset of the K8S cronjob spec?

Shivam Kumar
Maker
Link to HackerNews entry of the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
Layne Sadler
Does it support spot instances?
eshnil
Maker
@layne_sadler You don't need to care about machines or instances at all. We run the jobs in a container environment and you only pay for the time for which the job actually executes.