Hello,
I have another question. I implemented a first version for a topic modeling pipeline that is supposed to run as a cron job, every week or even every day, that is tbd. However, I noticed that Renku automatically stops a session after a certain time of inactivity. Is there a way of circumventing the shut down of a session to allow cron jobs to run? Maybe someone has some example projects or external links that could help me. Is it even possible to have cron jobs on Renku?
Kind regards
It is not possible to run cronjobs on Renku. We are adding jobs in an upcoming relase. But those have to be started manually or via the Renku CLI or even the API.
So when this is released what you could do is have a cronjob that runs somewhere else (i.e. your computer) that then starts a job on Renku.
The current version of renkulab is 2.18.1, jobs will be available in 2.19.0 and above.
Note however that you will need to be authenticated to launch a job. And currently authenticating with the CLI needs a browser. So it will be hard to have valid authentication credentials in the cronjob that you setup on your computer.
@tolevski Thank you for the swift response! That’s good to know.