Clarification Regarding Cron Jobs & Setup/Config

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I don’t have detailed answers for all the questions. just see a working solution from my setup:

  • additional cron container has same settings as app container (image, ENV, volumes, DB connection)
  • the only difference is the entrypoint, this is entrypoint: /cron.sh

this results in cron.php running with access to files and DB so it can perform background tasks of the instance

docker-compose example:

  dev-nextcloud-cron:
    image: nextcloud:23.0.1
    container_name: dev-nextcloud-cron
    restart: unless-stopped
    env_file:
      - ./nextcloud.env
      - ./db.env
    volumes:
      - ./app:/var/www/html
      - ./files:/var/www/html/data 
      - ./config:/var/www/html/config
    entrypoint: /cron.sh
    depends_on:
      - dev-nextcloud-app
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