Can we run opentransit-metrics/kubernetes/compute-new-cronjob.yaml as github action?

[sidetrackedmind]

Background

In order for the web app to show recent/current statistics, opentransit-metrics/backend/compute_new.py needs to run. This script pulls down the latest vehicle location data from S3 and runs compute_arrivals and compute_stats. The resultant data is put back in S3 for the web app to pick up and use to create data visualizations.

The compute_new.py used to run on Google Cloud (I think) using this yml:
https://github.com/codeforpdx/opentransit-metrics/blob/aba8f77506d93d91f68121569be58974ecdd130a/kubernetes/compute-new-cronjob.yaml

Issue / Ask

Is it possible to run this yml or run compute_new.py via github actions? From that doc, it looks like the first 2,000 minutes / month are free (or 3,000 if Code for PDX has a pro account):

If Github actions are not possible, what's the cheapest way to run that command daily? Can it run on the same heroku as the web app late at night?

[sidetrackedmind]

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/scheduler

[sidetrackedmind]

Apologies for the rushed writeup @youngj . Let us know what you find out about the heroku scheduler 🙌

[sidetrackedmind]

I created a github action in a forked version of this repo on my person github here - https://github.com/sidetrackedmind/opentransit-metrics-fork/blob/master/.github/workflows/run_compute.yml. I tested it and it seems to work. I'm going to let it run for a few days (weeks?) to get a sense for the timing. My main concern is going over the 20K minute free. I think we'll be fine 🤞 because the process takes ~10 mins. So 10 min / day * 31 days = 3,100 minutes.

I also just added another action to get schedule data weekly - https://github.com/sidetrackedmind/opentransit-metrics-fork/blob/master/.github/workflows/run_save_routes.yml.

If they run smoothly for a while and are not at risk of putting us over the free limit, I'll pull them into this repo so all the actions can run together.