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Work · August 23, 2016

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Dkron – Distributed job scheduling system enters Beta in 0.9.0 release

Cloud native job scheduling system

Dkron – Distributed job scheduling system enters Beta in 0.9.0 release launched on August 23, 2016 with 10 votes, #1,797 of 3,856 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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Dkron is a distributed job scheduling system that runs scheduled tasks across multiple machines in a cluster, similar to Unix cron but with no single point of failure. It offers an API and dashboard for managing workloads. The system is open source and available for free, designed for organizations needing reliable, fault-tolerant automation across clustered infrastructure.

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A distributed Cron service with, API, no SPOF and an easy to use dashboard. Dkron is a system service for workload automation that runs scheduled jobs, just like unix cron service but distributed in several machines in a cluster. This is the only job scheduler in the market with truly no SPOF. It is open source and available for free. Looking to embed Dkron in your virtual server or appliance? Read the Commercial FAQ. Dkron is an essential part of our fault-tolerant distributed automation workflow. Its deceptively simple setup hides a well implemented architecture. Using established tools to coordinate our large number of endpoints, allows us to set-and-forget many of the tasks that would…from dkron.io

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