XXL-JOB on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

XXL-JOB is an open source, widely adopted distributed task scheduling platform. It provides a central admin console where you define, schedule and dispatch scheduled jobs, and worker processes called executors that run those jobs on your own servers. The console supports cron and fixed rate scheduling, several executor routing strategies, block and failover handling, run logs, alerting and a live dashboard of scheduling activity, so batch work, data pipelines and periodic tasks run reliably without a bespoke cron setup on every machine.

The admin console is a web application backed by a relational database that holds the scheduler's jobs, executors and run history. You register your own executor applications against the console, then create jobs and route them to those executors, with full visibility of what ran, when and with what outcome. It is a self hosted alternative to ad hoc cron and homegrown schedulers for teams that want centralised control and auditing of their scheduled work.

Common uses

• Centrally schedule and dispatch batch jobs across many servers from one console.
• Run reliable data pipelines and periodic tasks with routing, failover and run logs.
• Replace scattered cron entries with an audited, self hosted job scheduler.

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.