agentskillexchange Schedule distributed agent maintenance jobs with Dkron
Use Dkron to run recurring agent maintenance, data refresh, evaluation, and cleanup jobs across a fault-tolerant cluster with a UI and API.
Prerequisites
Dkron server and agents, Docker or native Dkron binaries, networked worker nodes, job commands or API-triggered scripts
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- docker compose up -d
- docker compose up -d --scale dkron-server=4
- docker compose up -d --scale dkron-agent=10
- docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- The best way to test and develop dkron is using docker, you will need Docker with Docker
- Run the docker compose:
- For testing email notifications during development, Mailpit is included in the development docker-compose setup. Mailpit provides a local SMTP server that captures outgoing emails without sending them to real recipients.
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
Dkron runs on Linux, OSX and Windows. It can be used to run scheduled commands on a server cluster using any combination
You can use Dkron to run the most important part of your company, scheduled jobs.
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dkron-io/dkron/HEAD/README.md