Scheduling Random Distribution / Jitter

This feature is based around a feature built into Jenkins scheduling. You can use an “H” character in a CRON-style expression to allow random distribution of executions. This makes it MUCH easier to enable drift detection on a large number of stacks without randomizing your own schedules.

https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/best-practices/#avoid-scheduling-overload

Workaround
If using TF to managed SL stacks, you can randomly generate cron expressions for stack schedules
Problem
Stack runs get queued when enabling drift detection at scale (without custom execution distribution logic)

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➡️ Planned

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Date

10 months ago

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