apscheduler interval task is not running on aws

Question

I would like to fire my job every few minutes. It is working on my local machine. However, on AWS Elastic Beanstalk the job never fires. I use python 3.4, apscheduler 3.1.0 and Flask 0.10.1.

For instance:

from apscheduler.schedulers.background import BackgroundScheduler

def my_job()
    print('Hello')


scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
scheduler.add_job(my_job, 'interval', seconds=120, id='my_job')
scheduler.start()

Any ideas why it doesn't work on AWS?

Answer 1

you can use like this.

@application.before_first_request
def initialize():
    scheduler = BackgroundScheduler()
    scheduler.add_job(my_job, 'interval', seconds=120, id='my_job')
    scheduler.start()