Example implementation of cron jobs on Docker/Aptible

git clone https://github.com/aptible/docker-cron-example
cd docker-cron-example/
make run

The example will print "aptible/docker-cron-example" once every minute.

To include within an Aptible app, copy the three body lines of the Dockerfile to your own Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get -y install rsyslog
ADD files/etc/crontab /etc/crontab
RUN touch /var/log/cron.log

Then, copy files/etc/crontab to your own repo, replacing echo aptible/docker-cron-example with your own task, and * * * * * with your own desired job schedule.

Finally, add an entry in your Procfile for the new cron process:

cron: rsyslogd && cron && tail -f /var/log/syslog /var/log/cron.log

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