Every 6 months

Semi-annual jobs such as certificate audits, data-retention sweeps or credential reviews.

Checked with the same parser Bex uses to validate schedules. Next run times are computed in your browser.

Cron expression

0 0 1 1,7 *

minute	0
hour	0
day of month	1
month	1,7
day of week	*

Watch out for

A job that runs this rarely is easy to break without noticing; alert on failure, because the next chance to see the error is months away.
Bex does not set a per-job time zone: the cluster controller's clock decides. Bex's own next-run projection assumes UTC, as shown here.

Next runs

Calculating the next runs…

Edit or check this expression in the cron checker

How to write it

crontab

0 0 1 1,7 * /usr/local/bin/my-job

Kubernetes CronJob

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: my-job
spec:
  schedule: "0 0 1 1,7 *"
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: Never
          containers:
            - name: my-job
              image: my-image

GitHub Actions

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 1 1,7 *"

render.yaml (Bex cron job)

services:
  - name: my-cron-job
    type: cron
    runtime: docker
    schedule: "0 0 1 1,7 *"

Related schedules

Every quarter 0 0 1 1,4,7,10 *
Every year 0 0 1 1 *

Run this schedule as a cron job on Bex: declare it in render.yaml and Bex keeps the run history and logs for every execution.

Cron jobs on Bex