I’m looking to use App Platform for hosting some custom code. This is meant to be a scheduled type of task, so from what I understand, I’d want to set up a Worker component to run in the background. I have seen the docs and repo about the cron using Docker, over in the DigitalOcean-AppPlatform-Cron repo.
But I couldn’t find clarification on details regarding this Worker component. Is it a long running resource? I seem to be getting mixed answers as I search the internet, so I just wanted to be sure. I was thinking that if it was, then I could use something like node-cron within a script, and then have the Worker instance execute this script so that I can run some cron jobs. But I’d love to hear if this wouldn’t work.
Thanks in advance.
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