CRON-Job vs GitLab-CI
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mfreudenberg · 2023-11-05 12:15

Hi,

just wanted to ask your opinion on CRON-Jobs and GitLab-CI. I'd like
to setup a GitLab-CI, that basically reassembles a simple CRON-Job. I
want to run a curl,that sends a POST to a self-hosted app in my home
lab. I was first thinking about the classic way to do it with a CRON-
Job. But then i thought, hey why not using a scheduled GitLab-CI for
that purpose?

In my opinion, there are the following advantages:
- History of executed jobs
- No need to implement any logging
- Secrets like toke can be (more or less) safely handled by  GitLab
variables?

The only drawback would be the one-time setup efford. But that's IMHO
neglectable?

Do you think, that's a bad idea? What could be othrr
drawbacks/disadvantages?

Do i have to take into account any storage consideration (for my
selfhosted GitLab instance), if i run a job indefinitely?

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gmes78 · 2023-11-05 17:33

Why not use a systemd (oneshot) service + timer? It's nice to work
with, it does the logging for you, it lets you start it manually if
you want to, etc.