django-background-tasks management command not running on AWS elasticbeanstalk

Question

Greetings fellow programmers, I am currently using django-background-tasks( https://django-background-tasks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) to run some background tasks on AWS elasticbeanstalk. I initially use this command in the main.config container commands but I get timeout error in deployment because this management command will never finish(it continues to run on). Now, I am trying using the approach suggested for running cron job on elasticbeanstalk( https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cron-job-elastic-beanstalk/ ). Please take a look at my code, it is not running the command. what is wrong pls? I just need the command python manage.py process_tasks to keep running on. This is working properly on my local machine since i can easily open another terminal to fire up the python manage.py process_tasks command

    files:
    "/etc/cron.d/process_tasks_cron":
        mode: "000644"
        owner: root
        group: root
        content: |
            * * * * * root /usr/local/bin/99_process_tasks.sh

    "/usr/local/bin/99_process_tasks.sh":
        mode: "000755"
        owner: root
        group: root
        content: |
            #!/bin/bash

            date > /tmp/date
            # Your actual script content
            source /var/app/venv/*/bin/activate
            python manage.py process_tasks
            

commands:
    remove_old_cron:
        command: "rm -f /etc/cron.d/*.bak"

Answer 1

this a working version of the code. thanks and hope it helps someone out there.

files:
        "/etc/cron.d/cron_process":
            mode: "000644"
            owner: root
            group: root
            content: |
                * * * * * root /usr/local/bin/task_process.sh
    
        "/usr/local/bin/task_process.sh":
            mode: "000755"
            owner: root
            group: root
            content: |
                #!/bin/bash
                exec &>> /tmp/cron_capture_log.txt
                date > /tmp/date
                source /var/app/venv/staging-LQM1lest/bin/activate
                cd /var/app/current
                python manage.py process_tasks
               
    
    commands:
        remove_old_cron:
            command: "rm -f /etc/cron.d/cron_process.bak"