Creating laravel cron entry stopped working when running with github workflow

[priithansen]

Some time in the end of January it seems that the line in Dockerfile creating Laravel cron entry responsible for running the scheduler stopped working (when running with Github workflow). No idea if the timing is coincidental or something in the dependency chain got updated.

Tested with clean Laravel v11 installation following instructions from here https://fly.io/docs/laravel/advanced-guides/github-actions/

When running fly deploy locally everything seems to work as expected. When the deploy happens through Github workflow the /etc/cron.d/laravel file is missing. No differences or errors in build logs I can identify.

For a workaround ended up changing the Dockerfile logic to copy a premade laravel file from /.fly/cron/

# /.fly/cron/laravel

MAILTO=""
* * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/artisan schedule:run

Deleted line
&& echo "MAILTO=\"\"\n* * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/artisan schedule:run" > /etc/cron.d/laravel \
from Dockerfile and added
COPY .fly/cron/ /etc/cron.d/

Repo: https://github.com/priithansen/laravel-fly-schedule-test