Thann / rabbit-cron

Send periodic tasks to RabbitMQ

rabbit-cron

Send periodic tasks to RabbitMQ

npm install thann/rabbit-cron

rabbit-cron ./example_tasks.json

Tasks format

{
	url: 'amqp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@rabbitmq:5672',
	queue: {
		name: "name-of-the-queue",
		... // Queue options
	},
	tasks: [
		{
			cron: '* * * * *', // cron string
			task: 'String or JSON message to be enqueued',
			name: 'human readable name', // unused, optional
			immediate: true, // enqueue on service start
			... // Message options
		}
	]
}

See the amqp.node docs for info on the options: queue, message

Docker

Run container with mounted "tasks" file:

docker run --rm -v "./my_tasks.json:/app/example_tasks.json" thann/rabbit-cron

Dockerfile

You can easily make a Dockerfile with your tasks baked-in like this:

FROM thann/rabbit-cron
COPY ./my_tasks.json /app/
CMD ["./my_tasks.json"]

Advanced

You can use a script to wrap and modify your json format like: rabbit_cron ./task_mutator.js