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> Whereas there are a plethora of distributed schedulers which will happily run commands on any number of hosts.

If you have any specific suggestions, I am on the lookout. I checked out tools like airflow and dask but did not see what they added. Trying not to go full blown HPC cluster.

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HashiCorp Nomad[0] can do scheduled periodic tasks across a cluster of machines. Much lighter weight than Kubernetes, but a shotgun flyswatter when compared to cron.

[0] https://nomadproject.io

If you're on a PaaS solution, I'd take a look at the built-in scheduler e.g. scheduled tasks in Kubernetes, fargate or scheduled tasks in Mesos via Singularity or other frontend.

If you aren't using a PaaS, take a look at hashicorp's nomad tool. It's worth noting that if your team uses microservices or just likes making lots of services, a self-hosted or cloud PaaS solution will save you inordinate amounts of time when it's used by more than 20 engineers.

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