Using a cron like settings

[feddar]

Check a time like cron settings instead of every x minutes. See #13

[djmaze]

Well, thanks for your effort, but that code is currently not in a state as clean as I like it to.

I am currently thinking of building a real swarm scheduler as a separate service. Then shepherd would just add have a service label for its cron schedule.

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[bf8392]

I've maybe a solution for that...how would be using crazymax/cronjob for this? It's a swarm enabled sheduler...nervertheless some adjustments to the code have to be made, as the container would have to exit after the updates...otherwise it wouldn't work...would also love to see this "cron like shedule" implemented =) It's more convinient if you run a stack with collabora or something like this, because if the container get's updated unexpectedly, userdata is possibly lost...so I do this updates nirmally at 2.00 am...

[djmaze]

Yes, I was planning to use crazymax/swarm-cronjob for this. Unfortunately, it does not work correctly for containers deployed in global mode, so using it for backing up all your nodes is currently a rather awkward experience. Looks like job support will be part of the next Docker release, so we might finally be able to solve this problem.

Also, using swarm-cronjob would mean to have a different approach for people using swarm vs plain docker/compose setups. Will have to see if it would rather make sense to have a separate script for swarm setups.

[bf8392]

Okay very cool =). I'ts the last missing feature for beeing a completely perfect solution for automatic-updates on swarm =). Thanks for all the effort =)

[n1nj4888]

@djmaze Any update on this? Would be great to have cron-style scheduling support in shepherd!

[djmaze]

I did not yet find time to work on this.

[djmaze]

See #89.