Re:Writing a cron job microservice with Serverless and AWS L...
by mickael-kerjean on Monday January 30, 2017 @05:44PM
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Great to see I'm not the only one using Jenkins to look after crown jobs!
However, it's to me way more than simply auditing & auth.
The main advantage I found with Jenkins are:
- you get a central place for all the cron jobs. That comes with all the advantages the most important one being nobody has to remember on which server is this freaking script
- making an update can easily be done
- running the task can even be done by non technical people.
- easy backup
- when a script become deprecated you can easily remove it and you're not very likely to let it there running for nothing forever
- easy documentation for you tasks
There's probably more but Jenkins is definitely awesome for cron jobs
However, it's to me way more than simply auditing & auth. The main advantage I found with Jenkins are:
- you get a central place for all the cron jobs. That comes with all the advantages the most important one being nobody has to remember on which server is this freaking script
- making an update can easily be done
- running the task can even be done by non technical people.
- easy backup
- when a script become deprecated you can easily remove it and you're not very likely to let it there running for nothing forever
- easy documentation for you tasks
There's probably more but Jenkins is definitely awesome for cron jobs