Argo CronWorkflow Schedule
An Argo CronWorkflow wrapping an inline workflowSpec: a cron schedule with an explicit timezone, Replace concurrency, history limits, and a suspend flag. Nested-spec shape that flat schedule extractors miss.
apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
kind: CronWorkflow
metadata:
name: nightly-etl
namespace: example-apps
spec:
schedule: "17 2 * * *"
timezone: Etc/UTC
concurrencyPolicy: Replace
startingDeadlineSeconds: 300
successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 3
failedJobsHistoryLimit: 1
suspend: false
workflowSpec:
entrypoint: run
templates:
- name: run
container:
image: registry.example.invalid/example-org/etl:1.2.0
args: ["--window=24h"]
Specifications
- System
- Argo Workflows
- Kind
- CronWorkflow
- Schedule
- 17 2 * * *
- Timezone
- Etc/UTC
- Concurrency Policy
- Replace
- Suspend
- false
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Extract a schedule from a CronWorkflow whose workflow definition is nested inside it
- Expected result
- The cron expression and Etc/UTC timezone are read from the outer spec while the entrypoint is read from the nested workflowSpec
What is a .yaml file?
YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) is a human-readable data-serialization format using indentation, key-value pairs, and lists, and is a superset of JSON. It supports comments, anchors, and multiple documents per file, favoring readability for configuration. Its indentation sensitivity makes it error-prone to hand-edit.
How to use this file
Use an example YAML file to test config parsers, indentation and anchor handling, multi-document streams, and safe-loading to avoid arbitrary object construction.
How to use this file for testing
“Argo CronWorkflow Schedule” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Config testing, Config parsing, Editor testing. TOML, INI, YAML, .env, and dotfile configuration samples with nested sections and typed values — for testing config parsers, loaders, and environment tooling.
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Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Pipeline and infrastructure fixtures are inert configuration: steps reference fictional images and scripts, and nothing here executes. Run your linter, schema validator, migrator, or policy engine against them, and expect the deprecated-syntax and intentionally invalid variants to be rejected.
Point your config loader at the file and assert it reads the documented sections and typed values, including any deliberately-tricky nesting or comments.
Code examples
import yaml # pip install pyyaml
with open("argo-cronworkflow.yaml") as f:
data = yaml.safe_load(f)
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