Scheduled Workflows

When to Use This Skill

CronWorkflows run automation on a schedule: hourly builds, nightly backups, weekly reports. They combine the reliability of Kubernetes cron jobs with the power of Argo Workflows, enabling complex scheduled automation that survives cluster restarts and handles failures gracefully.

Implementation

1. Define the schedule using cron syntax
2. Set concurrency policy to handle overlaps appropriately
3. Configure history limits to prevent resource accumulation
4. Add monitoring for schedule misses and failures

Techniques

Patterns

Anti-Patterns to Avoid

Related Patterns

• Basic CronWorkflow
• Concurrency Policies
• Orchestration
• GitHub Integration

References

• Source Documentation
• AEL Patterns