Gocron
Self-hosted task scheduler with a web management UI
Gocron is an open-source, lightweight task scheduling system with a web interface for managing shell and HTTP jobs across hosts. It is self-hosted to schedule, run, and monitor recurring tasks.
Key features
- Web-based job management
- Shell and HTTP tasks
- Distributed task nodes
- Execution logs and alerts
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 6.3k GitHub stars
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