Run a scheduled task on AWS Batch using Ansible and Docker.

Dependencies:

Default Configuration:

Concurrency restricted to one at a time by limiting the resources of the ComputeEnvironment. (Job vCpus: 2 // Default Environment MaxvCpus: 2)
Ansible Playbook notifies Slack at job start and at job failure/success and sends failure/success notification to Datadog.
Job names are random. This can be modified in cfn/batch-scheduled-task.template by assigning a static value to job1Name in line 161.

1.) Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/evfurman/batch-scheduled-task

2.) Edit batch-scheduled-task.yml to add your own tasks

3.) Add Slack token, and Datadog token/app keys to vars in batch-scheduled-task.yml

4.) Add hosts under [cluster_members] in hosts.ini

5.) Build and push docker image to a private repository

6.) Add new image and tag to cfn/batch-scheduled-task.template on line 100

cd cfn && ./deploy.sh