alternative to supervisord in 2.11.x for ckanext-harvest

[dev-rke]

After supervisord has been removed from 2.11.x images without replacement, what is the recommended approach to integrate ckanext-harvest into the containers again?
Currently it breaks existing functionality when updating from 2.10.x containers.

Should one trigger gather and fetch jobs once via docker healthcheck?
Running it in background using nohup?
Trigger them from outside via host cron?

Or should i go for implementing supervisord manually again?

Would like to collect some ideas, thank you. :-)

[dev-rke]

After some thinking about the problem a relocation of the configuration might be more applicable.
I thought about moving these jobs into separate container instances might solve this as well.
So i created the following additional jobs in my docker-compose.yml extending my default ckan job:

  ckan-harvest-gather:
    extends: ckan
    command: bash -c "ckan --config=/srv/app/ckan.ini harvester gather-consumer >> /var/log/ckan/gather_consumer.log 2>&1"
    healthcheck:
      disable: true


  ckan-harvest-fetch:
    extends: ckan
    command: bash -c "ckan --config=/srv/app/ckan.ini harvester fetch-consumer >> /var/log/ckan/fetch_consumer.log 2>&1"
    healthcheck:
      disable: true

Are there any downsides of this approach? Are there better ways to handle this?

EDIT 22/07/2025:
I can recommend that approach now, there are no downsides, using it successfully in production and got rid of supervisord.
Prefixed commands with bash -c to allow correct redirection of stdout/stderr.
As alternative regular logging of containers can be used, then just leave out redirection.

[dev-rke]

Another Update:
Still works stable and performant, but in case you have a lot harvesters running, the fetch log file will grow over time. In comparison supervisord seems to integrate some kind of logrotate functionality, so this is a downside of that docker-compose approach. One could solve this by redirecting the log files to a logging server or applying logrotate manually.