hayesgm / crontasks-for-opsworks

A simple recipe to set-up crontasks on AWS OpsWorks

Crontasks for Opsworks

Then add a new layer cronrunner to your stack. Add crontasks as a custom deploy command in your cronrunner layer. You'll make a specific server run in two layers: it's orignal layer and cronrunner.

Next, add the following to your custom JSON:

"crontasks": {
  "my-app": {
    "some-cron-task": {
      "layers": ["rails-app"],
      "hour": "*",
      "minute": "*",
      "wd": "{app_root}",
      "cmd": "RAILS_ENV={rails_env} bundle exec echo time >> {app_root}/time.out"
    }
  }
},

...

Now, when you deploy, that server will have the given crontask installed.