Cron jobs in google cloud

Question

I need to deploy few cron jobs for my nodejs app hosted on google cloud.

I have 2 options

• cron-schedule npm package.
• cron.yaml provided by app engine.

I am not sure which has better performance and why ?

adding to it, I want my cron jobs to work on preemptible instance as they are meant for it, i search a lot but didn't find anything related.

Answer 1

I can speak for cron.yaml. 1. Cron.yaml has timeout limit of 60 mins. 2. Cron.yaml has retry limit of 5 3. Cron are vm level so multiple apps with their own cron is out of question. 4. From fail or time out log entry doesn't include clear number of retry.