Taskcrafter – CLI-based task scheduler that lets you define jobs in YAML
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lordgreg
21 hours ago
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Hi all,

I'm excited to introduce TaskCrafter, a brand-new open-source task scheduler designed for anyone who craves flexibility and control. TaskCrafter combines simplicity with power: think plugin support, Dockerized job execution, and intuitive job chaining – all built with Python and love for clean developer experience. With the just-released v0.0.3, things are getting serious – I've implemented all the modules I wanted to and am now preparing to make a list of things I've still want to finalize before it hits v1.0.0.

You can check it out here: https://github.com/lordgreg/taskcrafter

It would mean a world to me if you could provide any feedback, issue or a feature you would love to see.

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mdaniel
19 hours ago
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It's your toy, but I wanted to draw your attention to this very, very common "templating in yaml" bug

  world: "{result:hello:message}"
will always require quoting, because { is a special character in yaml. Contrast that with the GitHub Actions version of

  world: ${{result:hello:message}}
which doesn't require quoting because $ isn't a yaml special character. I don't have any insight about { versus {{ so I think you can pick your favorite but the leading character matters and it'd be better to fix that early in the tool's life than to suffer the Ansible outcome
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lordgreg
6 hours ago
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Hi mdaniel,

thank you for pointing this out. I will look into it since validity of yaml is something I always fight with, no matter if its pure yaml standard, helm-type or ytt. I will add this to the todo/refactor list :)

Much appreciated!

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