Cron jobs

In order to execute the tasks in a Kubernetes CronJob, the scheduling have to be converted to cron format. Some examples can be found in the table below. For more information visit crontab guru.

To define a cronjob you need to define a cronJobs in your gap.yaml every element in the cronJobs list is going to be a cronjob. More on gap.yaml here.

name: <your-app-name>
namespace: <your-teams-namespace>
cronJobs:
  <your-cronjob-name>:
      schedule: <your-cron-expression>
      command:
        - <your-command-to-run>
      activeDeadlineSeconds: 60

You can change CronJob configs per environment:

Suspend a job.

gap/production/gap.yaml

name: my-app
namespace: my-namespace
cronJobs:
  my-cronjob:
    suspend: true

Change schedule in staging environment.

gap/staging/gap.yaml

name: my-app
namespace: my-namespace
cronJobs:
  my-cronjob:
    schedule: 0 10 0 * *

To provide a time zone for the schedule to be interpreted in, the cronJobs.<your-cronjob-name>.timeZone field can be used.

name: <your-app-name>
namespace: <your-teams-namespace>
cronJobs:
  <your-cronjob-name>:
      schedule: <your-cron-expression>
      # provide a valid tz-identifier for the timeZone field. Example: "Asia/Baku"
      timeZone: <tz-identifier>

See this document for valid time zone identifiers.