Setup Cron

Environment

The cron containers must receive the same environment variables as the service containers.

Required cron jobs

Create the following two cron jobs:

• Every hour at minute 0 (sync-core): sync-core syndication update-stats
• Every minute (ideally close to second 0) (sync-core-broker): sync-core-broker messages cron

Notes

Caution: The message broker cron job is NOT expected to be retried on failure as jobs are not expected to overlap.

All other cron jobs can be retried on failure.

Caution: Some cron jobs are expected to run early every minute, so you need a pod scheduler that has new pods up and running within 15s. If you are using a slow scheduler like Fargate please reach out to us for alternative cron job scheduling options.