Supercronic
Crontab-compatible job runner built for containers
Supercronic is an open-source cron job runner that is crontab compatible and designed specifically to run inside containers. It is self-hosted to schedule periodic tasks with proper logging and signal handling.
Key features
- Crontab compatible
- Container friendly
- Proper logging
- Lightweight single binary
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (2.6k GitHub stars)
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