cronjobs

Docker alpine with curl for cronjobs

Simple image of Alpine with curl to run my cronjobs

To use it, create a docker-compose.yml with:

version: '3'
  services:
    cronjobs:
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: tigpt/cronjobs
    container_name: cronjobs
    volumes:
      - ./volumes/root:/etc/crontabs/root

put in ./volumes/root:/etc/crontabs/root folder your cronjobs

For more info on alpine cron: http://www.jimpryor.net/linux/dcron.html

Logs

Set cron output to /dev/stdout to see the cron logs

* * * * * curl -v https://tig.pt/test-cron > /dev/stdout

Read them with docker logs [container_name]

Alternatively add a volume to your local machine like this and set your cronjobs to log to that /var/log/

- ./log:/var/log/