Why would running scheduled tasks with Celery be preferable over crontab?

Question

Considering Celery is already a part of the stack to run task queues (i.e. it is not being added just for running crons, that seems an overkill IMHO ).

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Answer 1

Celery is indicated any time you need to coordinate jobs across multiple machines, ensure jobs run even as machines are added or dropped from a workgroup, have the ability to set expiration times for jobs, define multi-step jobs with graph-style rather than linear dependency flow, or have a single repository of scheduling logic that operates the same across multiple operating systems and versions.