Is there a reason not to use Bamboo to run repetitive tasks instead of cron?
Using task schedulers like Bamboo or Airflow have a lot of advantages over cron, particularly in their ability to recognize errors and process dependent tasks accordingly.  By far the most common reason not to use them is that you simply haven't set up the infrastructure yet: some form of cron is installed on every Linux machine, and it's easy to add a new job in, whereas these more advanced schedulers require setting up fleets of machines, installing and configuring various pieces of software, and learning how to write new tasks.

Assuming that you already have this in place, though, there are a few usecases that cron handles better:


Running a job on a specific machine.  You can do this with other schedulers, but they're generally designed for tasks that can be run on any one of a set of machines; when you want to do something like run a log rotation on every server in your fleet, that's much easier to set up with cron.
Running time-sensitive tasks at exact times.  Distributed schedulers will schedule a job to run, but it may not actually run for some period of time, depending on what else is in the queue.  Cron doesn't have a queue, and so a task that needs to run every minute will run every minute (or at least as close to that as the OS scheduler will allow).