Run django management command on elastic beanstalk worker instance using crontab

Question

I have written few django management commands that I want to run hourly, daily and weekly basis. I'm using Elastic Beanstalk and created a worker instance where the code is deployed. Can someone help me how to run the django management command with crontab using elastic beanstalk. Thanks

Here is my management command:

python manage.py command_name

Please help me write the container_command in .ebextensions/django.config file for crontab that will schedule the command on hourly basis. Thanks

Any help?

container_commands: run_cron: command: */60 * * * * python /path/to/manage.py command_name — Ammar

HenryM HenryM · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-21T13:31:15

in .ebextensions create a file crontab.txt

# Set the cron to run with utf8 encoding
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8

0 1 * * * root source /opt/python/current/env && nice /opt/python/current/app/manage.py command_name
# this file needs a blank space as the last line otherwise it will fail

This is a crontab file that will run command_name at 1 am every day. You'll need to get you path right which depends on your file structure.

In one of your config files include:

  02_cron_job:
    command: "cp .ebextensions/crontab.txt /etc/cron.d/my_cron_jobs && chmod 644 /etc/cron.d/my_cron_jobs"
    leader_only: true

This is going to copy your cron file into the right place on the ec2 instance so the job runs.

Run django management command on elastic beanstalk worker instance using crontab

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