Laravel 8 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk Linux Distro - Use Laravel Scheduler - Confirmed Working Oct 16 2020.

cronjob.config

files:
    "/etc/cron.d/schedule_run":
        mode: "000644"
        owner: root
        group: root
        content: |
            * * * * * root export $(cat /opt/elasticbeanstalk/deployment/env | xargs) && /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/artisan schedule:run &> /tmp/schedule_run.log

commands:
    remove_old_cron:
        command: "rm -f /etc/cron.d/*.bak"

#Be sure in your file there is one empty line after the last line of the file. Delete this line though.

Kernel.php

<?php
// File located in App\Console\Kernel.php

namespace App\Console;

use Log;
use App\Helpers\BackgroundWorker;
use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;

class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
    protected $commands = [
        //
    ];

    protected function scheduleTimezone() {
      return 'America/Los_Angeles';
    }

    protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule) {
        $schedule->call(function(){
          BackgroundWorker::do_action();
        })
        ->name('bgworker:do_action_one')
        ->weeklyOn(5, '17:00') // Fridays at 5PM

        $schedule->call(function(){
          BackgroundWorker::do_action_two();
        })
        ->name('bgworker:do_action_two')
        ->hourly()
        ->between('9:00', '18:00'); // run hourly between 9AM-6PM
    }

    protected function commands()
    {
        $this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands');

        require base_path('routes/console.php');
    }
}

There is so much information online about how to schedule:run on laravel but a lot of it is incorrect. This gist is 100% confirmed to be working for Laravel 8 on AWS Elasticbeanstalk Linux AMI.

This will execute the schedule run command every minute and output that to a /tmp/ file