Nomad Job Action with periodic schedule

[suikast42]

Hello and merry christmas ,

I define some backup actions for my postgres deployment over job action.

But I can't find any 'nomad' way to trigger the this actions over periodic way.

This could be very handy.

[rahadiangg]

you can use periodic block

[suikast42]

you can use periodic block

I know the periodic block. But how can I trigger a sepecific action in periodic block ?

[tgross]

Just some design thinking on this: architecturally an action block is driven by user intent -- there's a HTTP request that creates a websocket that gets hooked up to a streaming RPC. Having a "periodic action" would require a new mechanism on the client to execute the action. We'd need to decide where to pipe the stdout/stderr too -- they can't go into the client logs, for example, because those aren't accessible to job authors.

[suikast42]

I had feared that this is the case. Should I close this issue or is it planed to do so ?

[tgross]

I don't think it's an insurmountable problem. I'll mark it for further discussion and roadmapping.

[suikast42]

Ok. Thank you.