Docker + Laravel queue:work

Question

I\'m trying to run the following command after the container is up and running.

php artisan queue:work -n -q &

The \"&\" is there b

Answer 1

The queue:work command runs in the foreground, so you should run it that way so the container doesn't exit immediately.

Since the application code in Laravel is the same for running a container as a web application, queue, or scheduler I build one image that I can use in these contexts. I use a bash start script with an environment variable to define a container role, and this is what I run for a queue worker container:

#!/bin/bash

# Defaults to an app server
role=${CONTAINER_ROLE:-app}

if [ "$role" = "queue" ]; then
    # Run queue
    php artisan queue:work --verbose --tries=3 --timeout=90
elif [ "$role" = "app" ]; then
    # Run the web application
    /usr/bin/caddy --agree=true --conf=/etc/Caddyfile
elif [ "$role" = "scheduler" ]; then
    while [ true ]
    do
      php artisan schedule:run --verbose --no-interaction &
      sleep 60
    done
else
    echo "Could not match the container role...."
    exit 1
fi

Also note the infinite while loop and sleep combo to keep the scheduler role running and running the schedule:run command in the background in case the scheduler runs overlap (since they need to run every minute regardless of if the last one finished).