Question regarding running app + horizon + scheduler

[tudorr89]

Hello!

First of all, congrats on this amazing project!

I have a very stupid question being kind of new to containerisation. I have a project running app, horizon and scheduler. What's the best approach to run the container(s)?

I've build the container using FrankenPHP. Do I need to run a container for each service (app,horizon,scheduler) separately? Or can it be done in a single container instance?

Best,
Tudor

[smortexa]

According to best practices, it is recommended to have one container for each process. However, for small to medium projects with low scales, I personally opt to use a single container to host all services.

[tudorr89]

@smortexa thanks for the reply. I have initially build each container with the corresponding destination as per the instructions:

docker run -p <port>:80 --rm <image-name>:<tag>

docker run -e CONTAINER_MODE=horizon --rm <image-name>:<tag>

docker run -e CONTAINER_MODE=scheduler --rm <image-name>:<tag>

But when running jobs, i noticed a very strange error that was not occuring when running container queue:
Job is incomplete class: {"__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name":"App\Jobs\UserActivatedNotificationJob","user":{"class":"App\Models\User","id":8,"relations":["breezySessions","post","book","tag"],"connection":"mysql","collectionClass":null}}

Tried changing queue driver to database or redis, only sync worked without this error. Thing is that in local dev env i tried both redis and database drivers and they work without any issues. I believe this is caused by the fact that I was running this three containers simultaneously.

Currently, I have opted to build the image using docker run -e WITH_HORIZON=true -p <port>:80 --rm <image-name>:<tag>

This way I run app + horizon in one container and finally I run docker run -e CONTAINER_MODE=worker -e -d WORKER_COMMAND="php /var/www/html/artisan scheduler:run" --rm <image-name>:<tag> to run the scheduler based on the initial image.

Not sure if this helps in any way, but I'm posting what I discovered.

Thanks again for the hard work!

[smortexa]

Did you try these links?

laravel/framework#13222
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74792738/laravel-job-error-job-is-incomplete-class

[tudorr89]

I didn't have enough time to investigate this further, but I will try to create a staging environment from scratch and run the initial configuration.

Either way, so far so good. The initial question was about best practices and I thank you for the reply.

PS: A donate link would be useful!