Hi all,
One of the things I'm particularly wanting to change in our environment
is how cron processes are handled.
We've a mix of server-side scripts that run at various times x times
daily/hourly/minutes etc, and scheduled tasks done within Java.
Some of these can be run any number of times and locations, but some of
them a strictly once a day, one instance (e.g. e-mail/invoicing runs).
As a consequence java apps can often only be run on a single server, and
if a server dies I've got to go along and make sure all the cron
processes will happen on a different box.
I could handle the server-side cron stuff through chef, but ideally I'm
looking for something (highly-available, no point adding more SPOFs) to
handle this automatically and as transparently to me as possible, where
I can say a task needs to be run, how frequently and how many instances.
It looks like I could use scalr.net's task scheduler to achieve this
(software looks pretty neat all round, for that matter), but I'm
wondering what other options there are and what people's opinions are on
them? Do you use one you'd really strongly encourage me not to use?
Have one you love?
Paul
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