Disable scheduling on second instance of same project on AWS - laravel

Question

I have 2 instances of the same deployment/project on AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Both contain a Laravel project which contains scheduling code which runs various commands which can be found in the schedule method/function of the Kernel.php class within 'app/Console' - the problem I have is that if a command runs from one instance then it will also run the command from the second instance which is not what I want to happen.
What I would like to happen is that the commands get run from only one instance and not the other. How do I achieve this in the easiest way possible?
Is there a Laravel package which could help me achieve this?

Answer 1

From Laravel 5.6:
Laravel provides a onOneServer method which you can use if your applications share a single cache server. You could use something like ElastiCache to host Redis or Memcached and use it as your cache server for both of your application instances. Then you would be able to use the onOneServer method like this:
$schedule->command('report:generate')
->fridays()
->at('17:00')
->onOneServer();
For older versions of Laravel:
You could use the jdavidbakr/multi-server-event package. Once you have it set up you should be able to use it like:
$schedule->command('inspire')
->daily()
->withoutOverlappingMultiServer();

Answer 2

I had the same issue to run some cronjobs (nothing related to Laravel) and I found a nice solution (don't remember where I found it)
What I do is check if the instance running the code is the first instance on the Auto Scaling Group, if it's the first then I execute the command otherwise just exit.
This is the way it's implemented:
#!/bin/bash
INSTANCE_ID=`curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id 2>/dev/null`
REGION=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document 2>/dev/null | jq -r .region`
# Find the Auto Scaling Group name from the Elastic Beanstalk environment
ASG=`aws ec2 describe-tags --filters "Name=resource-id,Values=$INSTANCE_ID" \
--region $REGION --output json | jq -r '.[][] | select(.Key=="aws:autoscaling:groupName") | .Value'`
# Find the first instance in the Auto Scaling Group
FIRST=`aws autoscaling describe-auto-scaling-groups --auto-scaling-group-names $ASG \
--region $REGION --output json | \
jq -r '.AutoScalingGroups[].Instances[] | select(.LifecycleState=="InService") | .InstanceId' | sort | head -1`
# If the instance ids are the same exit 0
[ "$FIRST" = "$INSTANCE_ID" ]
Try implementing those calls using PHP and it should work.