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Robert Christian
Robert Christian

Reputation: 18310

Dynamic scheduler on GCP

Does GCP have a job scheduling service like Azure Scheduler, where jobs can be scheduled and managed dynamically via API?

Google Cron service is set in a static file and it seems like their answer to this is to use that to poke a roll your own service backed with PubSub and a data store. Looking for Quartz-like functionality, consumable by APP engine, which can be managed and invoked via API as opposed to managing a cluster, queue, and compute instance/VM deployment of Quartz (or the like) or rolling a custom solution. Should support 50 million simultaneous jobs per day with retry / recoverability and dynamic scheduling per tenant capabilities.

This is the cheapest and easiest way I can imagine building a solution today on top of an existing AppEngine based project:

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 1049

Answers (1)

Dan Cornilescu
Dan Cornilescu

Reputation: 39824

As you observed, currently there is no such API/service directly available on GCP. There is an open feature request (on GAE) for it.

But, also as you observed, it is possible to build and use a custom solution, just like the one you proposed.

Depending on the context even simpler solutions are possible. For a GAE context check out, for example, How to schedule repeated jobs or tasks from user parameters in Google App Engine?.

Upvotes: 1

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