<p>What is the recommended way to execute a container or pod based on a time-based schedule?  For example, a task to run at 2am for 10 minutes every day.  </p>

<p>On a traditional linux server, crontab would easily work, and that obviously still is possible inside the container.  However, since this task only executes for 10 minutes I was looking for a mechanism to execute a basic container on a given time interval, then dispose of of the container.  </p>

<p>Chronos (part of Mesos) appears to have a similar behavior, is this possible in Container Engine?</p>

<p>This is expected to be supported in 1.3: <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/11980" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/11980</a> </p>

<p>UPDATE: </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>didn't meet the 1.3 deadline so it'll sleep into 1.4</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/2156#issuecomment-223385808" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/2156#issuecomment-223385808</a></p>

<p>UPDATE (thanks @Kevinoid):
Looks like it has reached alpha in 1.4 and progress is now being tracked in <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/features/issues/19" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/kubernetes/features/issues/19</a> with usage documentation at <a href="http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/cron-jobs/" rel="noreferrer">http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/cron-jobs/</a></p>
