Clustered Apache Camel to run Jira routes

Question

Background: We have written a Spring Boot Apache Camel based ingestion service which runs Camel routes that ingest data from shared directory (Excel files) and Jira (API calls). Jira based routes are fired using Scheduler at pre-defined frequency. User configures multiple integrations in the system and each integration maps to one Camel route. In production, there shall be 10 instances of the ingestion service running.

Problem Statement: For each integration using Jira, only one ingestion instance should fire a route, process it and rest should not if there is already a running instance for that specific route.

Question: How to make sure only one ingestion instance processes a route and rest ignore it (i.e. may start but stop after doing nothing)?

Analysis: It seems Camel Cluster component can be used but not sure if it can be used in conjunction with scheduler component. In addition, since cluster component can rely on standalone components such as cache, file etc., preferred solution would be to use something that does not require any new components in the architecture. Also it may be possible to use a custom solution but preference is to use an out-of-box solution.