id: cronjob
name: CronJob
full-link: /docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs/
tags:
- core-object
- workload
short-description: >
  Manages a [Job](/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/jobs-run-to-completion/) that runs on a periodic schedule.
long-description: >
  Similar to a line in a *crontab* file, a Cronjob object specifies a schedule using the [Cron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron) format.