cheek is a pico-sized declarative job scheduler designed to excel in a single-node environment. cheek aims to be lightweight, stand-alone and simple. It does not compete for robustness.
What is cheek?
cheek is a lightweight job scheduler designed to run tasks on a schedule with minimal configuration. It provides a web interface for monitoring jobs and supports webhooks for notifications.
Key Features
- Lightweight: Minimal resource footprint
- Declarative: Define your jobs and schedules in YAML
- Single-node: Optimized for single-node environments
- Web UI: Built-in web interface for monitoring and management
- Event-driven: Support for webhooks and job triggering
- Simple: Easy to set up and configure
Why another scheduler?
For many simple cases, crontab would fit my bill for about 80% of scheduling needs. It’s battle-tested, widely available, and gets the job done for basic periodic tasks.
However, I wanted something that was:
- Declarative - Define jobs and schedules in a clear, version-controlled format
- Code-friendly - Easy to manage through code updates and deployments
- Log accessible - More intuitive access to job logs and execution history
- Lightweight - Simple to deploy and maintain, without enterprise complexity
Cheek emerged from this need for a very lightweight scheduler with slightly more batteries included than crontab. It bridges the gap between crontab’s simplicity and full-featured enterprise schedulers.
Think of Cheek as crontab’s slightly more sophisticated cousin - retaining the simplicity while adding just enough modern conveniences to make job management more pleasant.