Laravel scheduled tasks

Hi there,

The documentation that you’ve shared gives a Node.js sample app as an example. In order for this to work, you need to get the files from the docker-cron repo and use the Dockerfile from the example repo as a blueprint and adjust it for your Laravel project.

That way, rather than running the example curl command from the demo Node app, the Worker component will clone your Laravel project and will have access to all of the necessary files.

Here is an example of an extended Dockerfile which might need some adjustments based on your app:

# Use the official PHP image as the base image
FROM php:8.0-fpm

# Install necessary packages for Laravel, including cron and unzip
RUN apt-get update \
    && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y --no-install-recommends install -y cron curl unzip libpq-dev \
    # Remove package lists for smaller image sizes
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql \
    # Install Composer
    && curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

# Set the working directory for the Laravel app
WORKDIR /var/www

# Copy the Laravel app into the container
COPY . /var/www

# Install the Laravel app dependencies
RUN composer install

# Set proper permissions for the storage and bootstrap/cache directories
RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/storage /var/www/bootstrap/cache \
    && chmod -R 755 /var/www/storage /var/www/bootstrap/cache

# Copy the crontab file and entrypoint script into the container
COPY crontab /hello-cron
COPY entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh

# Install the crontab and make the entrypoint script executable
RUN crontab /hello-cron \
    && chmod +x /entrypoint.sh

# Run the entrypoint script
ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]

# https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/cron.8.html
# -f | Stay in foreground mode, don't daemonize.
# -L loglevel | Tell  cron  what to log about jobs (errors are logged regardless of this value) as the sum of the following values:
CMD ["cron", "-f", "-L", "2"]

An alternative option is to use the suggestion here with a standard worker and a while loop:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/laravel-app-platform-cron-job

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby