Show HN: Ofelia – a simple job scheduler ready for Docker

by mcuadros • 10 years ago

44 19 10 years ago

throwanem• 10 years ago

I get that this is not Vixie cron and has a little syntactic sugar for executing commands in Docker containers, but I'm not sure what else it offers, and I'm really going to need a very good reason to consider replacing a thoroughly battle-tested crond with anything, new or otherwise.

I don't see that here. What am I missing?

mcuadros4• 10 years ago

I created Ofelia, being getting Vixie crond inside of a container is a nightmare (at least when I started the project, 1 year ago), with Ofelia is simply tasks.

discordianfish2• 10 years ago

I'd be careful with that name/reference. Without implying any bad intent, naming your job scheduler after a female office assistant that being made fun of for being obese isn't a good idea. If the project gets attention, this will get attention.

fern4lvarez• 10 years ago

Well, where you see a "female office assistant that being made fun of for being obese", Ofelia is no more than a nice character from a very famous Spanish comic, "Mortadelo y Filemón".

rexpop• 10 years ago

Huh, I thought Ophelia from Hamlet.

jwkane• 10 years ago

I assumed the same, figured it did its job then killed itself.

skeptic2718• 10 years ago

What a time to be alive.

Who is this person you speak of? Google doesn't seem to know anything about a fat office assistant named Ofelia.

sheraz• 10 years ago

It is referenced in the last line of the readme.

mcuadros4• 10 years ago

As explained in the README, is a character from Mortadelo and Filemon[1], she is a office manager and I though that was a good simile to a job scheduler, obviously the intent is not make fun of the fat that she is fat.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_%26_Phil

discordianfish2• 10 years ago

I understand this and said that I'm not saying there was any bad intend. I'm just saying that some people will feel offended by this, so if this gets attention there will be people pointing this out.

This makes me wonder why I'm getting downvoted though.

Is it because people don't believe it's right that I point out that people might get offended by this? Or is it more because people don't like that other people get offended by this?

tedmiston• 10 years ago

I'm currently doing scheduled Docker containerized tasks via Airflow. Though the setup is a bit more complex at first, working in DAGs also simplifies my code when one task depends on one or more before it. Is this intended to compete with a setup like that?

mcuadros4• 10 years ago

Nope I don't want to have any complex like a execution tree, this is just a small replacement of the kind of jobs you want to run with cron

chukye• 10 years ago

What is the problem with cron? It's just too old for you guys?

wyldfire2• 10 years ago

The author tries to answer that question. From the README's "Why?" section:

Vixie's cron works great but it's not extensible and it's hard to debug when something goes wrong.

eb0la2• 10 years ago

Very interesting. I would like to see something in the future with support for approximate times, like launching something about five minutes.

Why? Because sometimes you don't want all your jobs to start at once. Just moving one job some miliseconds ahead of time will make a whole server to handle load better

mcuadros4• 10 years ago

Could be a nice PR ;)

eb0la2• 10 years ago

You are tempting me to learn a little bit of go !!

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