Cron To Go Scheduler: Run scheduled tasks on your Heroku Apps

Cron To Go allows you to schedule virtually any job on your Heroku applications.

Heroku buildpack: Heroku CLI plugin for Cron To Go

This is a Heroku buildpack that allows one to run the Heroku CLI plugin for Cron To Go Scheduler Heroku add-on in a dyno alongside application code.

Usage

Example usage:

$ heroku config:set HEROKU_API_KEY=`heroku auth:token`

$ heroku buildpacks:add heroku-buildpack-cli-plugin-cron

$ git push heroku master
...

remote: -----> heroku-cli-plugin-cron app detected
remote: === Fetching and vendoring Heroku CLI into slug
remote: === Installing Heroku CLI plugin for Cron To Go into slug
remote: === Installing profile.d script
remote: === Heroku CLI plugin for Cron To Go installation done
...

$ heroku run 'heroku auth:token'
Running `heroku auth:token` attached to terminal... up, run.3706
abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01

$ heroku run 'heroku cron -a myapp'
Running `heroku cron:jobs:import manifest.yml -a myapp` attached to terminal... up, run.5231

Importing jobs to Cron To Go organization... done. 3/3 jobs imported

The heroku-buildpack-cli-plugin-cron from the Buildpack Registry contains the latest stable version of the buildpack. To use the edge version of the buildpack (i.e. the source code in this repository) run this command instead:

$ heroku buildpacks:add https://github.com/crazyantlabs/heroku-buildpack-cli-plugin-cron

Notes

Instead of setting HEROKU_API_KEY directly on the app as shown above, a short lived token may be passed in at run time:

heroku run "HEROKU_API_KEY=`heroku authorizations:create --expires-in 600 --short` heroku cron:jobs:import manifest.yml -a myapp" -a myapp