Alternatives to Supercronic
A crontab-compatible job runner built to run scheduled jobs inside containers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Supercronic
A crontab-compatible job runner built to run scheduled jobs inside containers.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Supercronic.
Ofelia
A lightweight job scheduler for Docker environments that runs cron-style tasks for containers.
Ofelia runs as its own container and schedules cron-style jobs that target other Docker containers directly, instead of running inside each container.
Cronie
The standard UNIX cron daemon, crond, for running programs at scheduled times on Linux.
Cronie is the standard Linux cron daemon with anacron and PAM support, designed for regular hosts rather than containers.
Dagu
A self-hosted workflow orchestrator that runs scripts, SSH commands and containers from declarative YAML files.
Dagu replaces crontab files with YAML workflows and adds a web interface for running and monitoring jobs, as a single self-hosted binary.
Cronicle
A self-hosted, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web interface.
Cronicle provides a web interface for scheduled jobs across multiple servers, but it is now in maintenance mode with bug and security fixes only.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Pueue
A command-line task manager that queues shell commands and runs them in the background.
Cronitor
A hosted monitoring service for cron jobs, background workers, websites and APIs, with failure alerts.
Dead Man's Snitch
A hosted monitoring service that alerts you when a cron job or scheduled task fails to run.
dockcheck
A command-line script that checks Docker containers for image updates and can apply them.
