AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Running Cron.d script, missing Environment Variables

Question

I\'m trying to run a PHP script that is triggered by a cron script (in cron.d). The script is triggered properly but it is missing the Elastic Beanstalk \"Environment Variab

Answer 1

While searching for solutions to the same problem I ran into this blog post: http://sebgoo.blogspot.nl/2013/10/elastic-beanstalk-cron-command-and-rds.html. To summarize, you can load the Elastic Beanstalk environment variables using the opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars file:

0 3 * * * . /opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars; some_command

Hope this helps!