How to run a cron job inside a docker container?

Question

I am trying to run a cronjob inside a docker container that invokes a shell script.

Yesterday I have been searching all over the web and stack overflow, but I could

Answer 1

When you deploy your container on another host, just note that it won't start any processes automatically. You need to make sure that 'cron' service is running inside your container. In our case, I am using Supervisord with other services to start cron service.

[program:misc]
command=/etc/init.d/cron restart
user=root
autostart=true
autorestart=true
stderr_logfile=/var/log/misc-cron.err.log
stdout_logfile=/var/log/misc-cron.out.log
priority=998