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s.containers/cron

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Why?

Setup and start cronjobs in a docker container. Very useful for docker compose stacks. Also the output of the cronjobs is logged to the console.

Environment Variables

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
CRON_TZ	string	null	The timezone to use for the cron jobs.
CRON_STARTUP	string	null	The command to execute on startup.
JOB_ + name	String	null	An crontab line

Example

version: "3"
services:
  cron:
    image: ghcr.io/scolastico-dev/s.containers/cron:latest
    environment:
      - CRON_TZ=Europe/Berlin
      - |-
        CRON_STARTUP=apt update
        apt install net-tools
      - JOB_HELLO_WORLD_ONE=* * * * * echo "Hello World One!"
      - >-
        JOB_HELLO_WORLD_TWO=* * * * *
        echo "Hello World" &&
        echo "Two!"