rd VS swarm-cronjob

Compare rd vs swarm-cronjob and see what are their differences.

rd

Container Management and Kubernetes on the Desktop (by rancher-sandbox)

swarm-cronjob

Create jobs on a time-based schedule on Docker Swarm (by crazy-max)
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rd swarm-cronjob
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10.0 7.7
about 14 hours ago 5 days ago
TypeScript Go
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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rd

Posts with mentions or reviews of rd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.
  • Rancher Desktop v1.11.0 with Snapshots, Container Dashboard and More
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2023
  • K3s – Lightweight Kubernetes
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    So, please please solve this request here: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/18...
  • Rancher Desktop 1.9 released with support for Docker Extensions
    1 project | /r/rancherdesktop | 2 Jul 2023
  • Apple Virtualization Framework
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2023
  • No docker options
    5 projects | /r/golang | 5 Apr 2023
  • macOS Apple Silicon version is still Intel x86?
    1 project | /r/rancher | 21 Mar 2023
  • Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the Two Containerization Tools – Linode
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases

    Then in Rancher Desktop you enable WSL integration as shown here:

  • Nginx in KinD
    1 project | /r/nginx | 8 Dec 2022
    If using rancher desktop: https://docs.rancherdesktop.io/tutorials/working-with-images/ https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/issues/952
  • New Docker Desktop: Run WASM Applications Alongside Linux Containers in Docker
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2022
    > docker desktop is pretty dead now that it's got restrictive licensing etc...

    It would probably be nice to hear more about why you think this is! I've certainly heard of some having to move away from Docker Desktop.

    However, at the scale where you need a license (250 employees or 10 million $ in annual revenue) it's not quite as big of an issue, especially at their current pricing per seat: https://www.docker.com/pricing/

    > stick to standard open source tools like Colima etc...

    Sticking to open source is a great idea!

    I think mentioning that Colima runs on macOS and Linux only at the moment is also a good idea: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

    A large market share of the Docker Desktop installs are Windows in particular (since it's "the one way" how most install Docker nowadays, as opposed to not really needing a GUI or the supporting tools on Linux).

    In another comment I mentioned Podman Desktop as a mostly viable alternative: https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop

    Then there's also Rancher Desktop as well: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop

    Regardless, it's nice to see reputable orgs behind the open source projects as well, which gives a bit more credence to their chances of surviving for the years to come.

  • Finch: An open-source client for container development
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2022
    Great, then can you speak to whether rancher-desktop supports the "--platform" argument to "run" the same way that finch does?

    I wouldn't mind answering it myself, but it looks like rancher-desktop is an electron something or other: https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/blob/v1.6... and even downloading the 500MB release zip shows that there's `Rancher Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl` hidden in it, but I'm a distrustful sort and I don't want to crawl through unlimited lines of typescript to find out what this is going to do to my system

    Maybe it's just that I'm not the right audience for this, since I am the polar opposite of "some gui fanciness," as I came up through the docker-machine universe, and now colima, and thus have a lot more comfort debugging CLI tooling when something inevitably goes toes up

swarm-cronjob

Posts with mentions or reviews of swarm-cronjob. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-23.
  • Efficiency between docker restart and container with sleep
    2 projects | /r/docker | 23 Jan 2023
    Anything from simple crontab entry to something like this: https://crazymax.dev/swarm-cronjob/
  • How do you evaluate if a tool is trustworthy?
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 11 Aug 2022
    So, I found a really nice little tool that solves a problem I have in a really nice way. Specifically, cron jobs on Docker Swarm. This project: https://github.com/crazy-max/swarm-cronjob It uses labels on your services to schedule jobs. Thus it needs access to the docker api, and all the security concerns that go along with it...
  • Rancher Desktop, a Docker Desktop Replacement
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2021
    As i said, if it's not exposed to the outside world and doesn't work with untrusted data, that claim is not entirely valid.

    Imagine something like this getting abandoned, or someone running a year old version of it: https://github.com/crazy-max/swarm-cronjob/blob/master/READM...

    Its only job is to run containers on a particular schedule, no more no less. There are very few attack vectors for something like that, considering that it doesn't talk to the outside world, nor processes any user input data.

    Then again, it's not my job to pass judgement on situations like that, merely acknowledge that they exist and therefore the consequences of those suddenly breaking cannot be ignored.

  • Docker Swarm cron job manager
    5 projects | /r/docker | 28 May 2021
    I also found swarm-cronjob and ofelia both seems promising. BUT , I really like the idea of an interface to watch log files etc.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rd and swarm-cronjob you can also consider the following projects:

colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

ofelia - A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker)

lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

swarm-scheduler - A distributed scheduler for docker swarm mode using Compose and Cron

intellij-community - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

Airflow - Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows

multipass - Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

Diun - Receive notifications when an image is updated on a Docker registry

nerdctl - contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

remote-docker-aws - Remote Docker for local development hosted using AWS

longhorn - Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes