Deploying a scheduled webjob to Azure Webapp without Visual Studio

Question

I am having a hard time piecing together the documentation on Azure webjobs, so that I can deploy a scheduled WebJob to my WebApp without using Visual Studio. In my case the code is on GitHub and I want the deployment to be fully inititated by the webhook to Azure.

The documentation mentions that I can drop .exe into: \App_Data\jobs\continuous\webjob1 of my WebApp. I have created a post-build script that does that, which works fine. It's discovered and displayed in the Azure manager. But I can't make i scheduled.

Answer 1

Take a look at the following post to easily add a schedule to your WebJob.

Note that the path you are deploying the WebJob to \App_Data\jobs\continuous\webjob1 is actually for a continuous WebJob, you need a triggered WebJob that would go in the triggered directory \App_Data\jobs\triggered\webjob1.

Then you just add the settings.job file with the schedule property in the form of a cron expression (with 6 fields).

For example - {"schedule": "* 0 * * * *"} (once an hour at 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, ...).

Note that it requires your site to be "Always On".

Another option is to use Azure Scheduler service which you can configure from the current Azure Portal.