Graceful Job Shutdown
Stop jobs cleanly.
Stopping Jobs Cleanly
A scheduler that is killed mid-job can corrupt data or leave half-finished work. Graceful shutdown means: stop accepting new runs, let in-flight jobs finish (up to a deadline), then exit.
Listening for Signals
Catch OS signals like SIGINT (Ctrl+C) and SIGTERM (orchestrator stop) so you can shut down on purpose.
sig := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
signal.Notify(sig, syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM)
<-sig
fmt.Println("shutting down")All lessons in this course
- Time-Based Scheduling
- The robfig/cron Library
- Tickers for Intervals
- Graceful Job Shutdown