You can copy your crontab into an image, in order for the container launched from said image to run the job. Important: as noted in docker-cron issue 3: use LF, not CRLF for your cron file. See "Run a cron job with Docker" from Julien Boulay in his Ekito/docker-cron: Let’s create a new file called "hello-cron" to describe our job. # must be ended with a new line "LF" (Unix) and not "CRLF" (Windows