Cron job management

[JherezTaylor]

Goal

• It would be nice to have a standard way to manage all the cron jobs we will eventually use via HTTP requests.

Deliverables

• Flask app
• Investigate the feasibility of managing cron jobs via HTTP requests
• Define routes that refer to a specific function name and listen for POST requests
• Should start, stop, restart cron jobs that manage underlying python processes
• Can be something basic for now, in the future the route should also accept an authentication token and check it against a database to ensure that a valid user sent the command

Example

@app.route('/process1/<command>')
def manage_process1(command):
    # Send  start, stop, restart command to some cronjob
    job = cron.find_comment('process1')
    if command === 'start':
        job.enable()

Links

• python-crontab
• Quick guide