User Schedulers

Every Application user can have its own scheduler. Unlike the manual and policy schedulers, a user scheduler is not created from the UI. Application users authenticate with an API key rather than signing in, so their scheduler can currently only be created and managed through the Plakar Control Plane API, using that user’s API key.

An Application user has no scheduler by default. It must explicitly create one through the API before it can schedule any tasks. Once created, the user can manage its own scheduled tasks independently of the manual and policy schedulers.

The User schedulers tab in Operations > Scheduling lists every Application user that has created a scheduler, showing how many tasks it manages and when it last ran a job. Selecting a user scheduler enables you to view its own scheduled tasks and job history, the same way the manual scheduler and policy scheduler tabs shows their own. See the job history documentation for details on monitoring job progress, viewing job output, and finding jobs on app pages.

The Kubernetes Operator is currently the only client that creates a user scheduler. It authenticates as an Application user and, when it connects to Plakar Control Plane, creates a scheduler for that user if one doesn’t already exist. From then on, every ScheduleBackup, ScheduleCheck, and ScheduleSync resource it manages appears under that user’s entry in the User schedulers tab. See Scheduling for how the operator represents these tasks and their job history as Kubernetes resources.