Deploy python worker to heroku without running immediatly
Question:
I have a simply python script that I deploy on Heroku as worker:
Procfile:
worker: python main.py
The script is scheduled to run every day at a specific time with the Heroku Scheduler. I don’t want it to run to other times.
Every time I push new changes to heroku (git push heroku master) the script is run automatically which I want to avoid.
How can I do that?
I looked into using another scheduler, that is set up from within the script like the APScheduler. Would this be a solution? Do I need to change my script?
Thanks!
Answers:
You can scale the worker dyno formation down to zero:
If you want to stop running a particular process type entirely, simply scale it to 0
So:
heroku ps:scale worker=0
Jobs scheduled via Heroku Scheduler should still run as configured.
I have a simply python script that I deploy on Heroku as worker:
Procfile:
worker: python main.py
The script is scheduled to run every day at a specific time with the Heroku Scheduler. I don’t want it to run to other times.
Every time I push new changes to heroku (git push heroku master) the script is run automatically which I want to avoid.
How can I do that?
I looked into using another scheduler, that is set up from within the script like the APScheduler. Would this be a solution? Do I need to change my script?
Thanks!
You can scale the worker dyno formation down to zero:
If you want to stop running a particular process type entirely, simply scale it to
0
So:
heroku ps:scale worker=0
Jobs scheduled via Heroku Scheduler should still run as configured.