I have a web app powered by Laravel that is set up on AWS ECS. I would need to run an artisan command as a cronjob.
I'm looking at "Scheduled Tasks" in ECS Cluster configuration. I can launch new tasks following the "Scheduled Tasks (Cron)" documentation on AWS. I'm using the Laravel's Task Definition in the Target which I use for web services & it has two tasks.
- Not sure how I can invoke the artisan command
- The scheduled task seems running forever
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Best Answer
I'm not familiar with Laravel or Artisan but essentially you'll need to:
Regarding "The scheduled task seems to be running forever" - ECS Tasks do their job and exit and are not restarted (e.g. cron jobs). ECS Services are restarted when they exit (e.g. web servers). Make sure you're creating a Task and not a Service. Then it should be running forever.
Hope that helps :)