⛰️ cron

rootless cron scheduler with cmd-socket command

MAIN TAGS 🏷️

These are the main tags for the image. There is also a tag for each commit and its shorthand sha256 value.

• 4.6
• stable
• latest

SYNOPSIS 📖

What can I do with this? This image will give you the ability to execute cron jobs in a complete rootless environment. It also contains the cmd command to execute commands inside other images that use the cmd-socket binary.

COMPOSE ✂️

name: "cron"
services:
  cron:
    image: "11notes/cron:4.6"
    container_name: "cron"
    environment:
      TZ: "Europe/Zurich"
      CRONTAB: |-
        * * * * * eleven log info "I run every minute" > /proc/1/fd/1
        0 3 * * * cmd /run/cmd/.sock backup > /proc/1/fd/1
    restart: "always"

DEFAULT SETTINGS 🗃️

Parameter	Value	Description
user	docker	user name
uid	1000	user identifier
gid	1000	group identifier
home	/cron	home directory of user docker

ENVIRONMENT 📝

Parameter	Value	Default
TZ	Time Zone
DEBUG	Will activate debug option for container image and app (if available)

SOURCE 💾

• 11notes/cron

PARENT IMAGE 🏛️

• 11notes/alpine:stable

BUILT WITH 🧰

• dcron
• cmd-socket

GENERAL TIPS 📌

• Use a reverse proxy like Traefik, Nginx, HAproxy to terminate TLS and to protect your endpoints
• Use Let’s Encrypt DNS-01 challenge to obtain valid SSL certificates for your services

ElevenNotes™️

This image is provided to you at your own risk. Always make backups before updating an image to a different version. Check the releases for breaking changes. If you have any problems with using this image simply raise an issue, thanks. If you have a question or inputs please create a new discussion instead of an issue. You can find all my other repositories on github.

created 12.3.2025, 08:52:45 (CET)