How to run task inside docker container from host in cron?

Question

Task Schedulers

Hello!
I want to run a task inside a docker container from a host in the cron. There is such a solution

/usr/bin/docker-compose -f ~/path/to/docker-compose.yml exec -T php /usr/bin/php /var/www/bin/yii bigquery/events

, if you just run it, it works and the task works out, but when I do all this, I put it in cron

* * * * * /usr/bin/docker-compose -f ~/path/to/docker-compose.yml exec -T php /usr/bin/php /var/www/bin/yii bigquery/events

, then nothing works. There is no information about the error in the cron logs.
What could be wrong

Answer 1

Answer found! And as it happens, he is banal. docker-compose didn't see the variables from the .env file. had to change directory before executing docker-compose

* * * * * cd ~/directory/to/your/docker-compose && /usr/local/bin/docker-compose -f ~/directory/to/docker-compose.yml run --rm -T -w /var/www php /var/www/bin/yii bigquery/events

Answer 2

Since you're making your bike anyway, make sure that the application you're running is always running on the host and has some port published. Further - easier. From Cron, knock on this port with curl at the required frequency, and the handler from the application will already run your task.