timothyclarke/awscron repository overview

⁠AWS Cron

⁠Reason

We need to run cron jobs. This container is to allow that AND to have the AWS CLI tools so we can interact with that API

⁠Build

⁠To build

$ docker build -t awscron:latest .

⁠Usage

The container takes a minimum of 3 environmental variables

CRONS is a comma seperated list of cronjob names For each cronjob there should be the following 2 environmental variables SCHEDULE_${cron} and CMD_${cron}

eg

CRONS=sample
SCHEDULE_sample='0 * * * *'
CMD_sample='/bin/echo "Hello World"'

⁠AWS

If you want to use AWS tools you can provide the following AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID & AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY