[Nix-dev] Announcing Hail — A service for pull-based continuous deployment from Hydra

Shea Levy shea at shealevy.com
Wed Apr 12 14:44:42 CEST 2017


We are using the system cron! Our activation script just updates a file
in crontab.d (and ensures some services some of our cron jobs needs are
running).

~Shea

zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> writes:

> Hi Shea,
>
> It's cool that you're reusing the activation script interface for non-nixos
> targets.
>
> What are the advantages for having hail run the cron task instead of using
> the system cron? Is it to make it more cross-OS compatible?
>
> Cheers,
> z
>
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, 19:16 Shea Levy, <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Takt has open-sourced a tool we're using to deploy our services from
>> hydra. Check out the blog post at
>> https://code.takt.com/announcing-hail-4da7208df56d !
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shea
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