IT lexicon Infra & Ops Cron

Cron

Infra & Ops På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

The Linux system for running jobs on a schedule — backups, cleanups, periodic reports.

Crontab syntax: 0 3 * * * /script.sh = run at 03:00 every night. Classic, robust, around since the 70s. Cloud variants: AWS EventBridge, GCP Cloud Scheduler, Kubernetes CronJobs.

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