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Heard of the Google Cloud Scheduler, folks? This is a newly launched, “fully managed Enterprise-grade” cron job scheduler. That’s right.
Using the Google Cloud Scheduler service you can schedule virtually any job. Which means – Big Data jobs, batch jobs, anything, claims Google. Users can automate everything, including retries in case of failure to reduce manual toil & intervention. Cloud Scheduler even acts as a single pane of glass, allowing you to manage all your automation tasks from one place.
For those of you who are unaware, ‘cron’ is a Linux utility which schedules a command or script on your server to run automatically at a specified time and date. A cron job is the scheduled task itself.
Using the Google Cloud Scheduler, developers can run their jobs on a recurring schedule. Instead of using poorly written scripts or human intervention to run large jobs, Cloud Scheduler allows you to run them at the same time each week, day, or hour with guaranteed execution & retries in case of failures.
With support for a variety of cron job targets, Cloud Scheduler allows you to automate virtually anything. Here are some of them – trigger an app engine app, send a message via Cloud Pub/Sub, or hit an arbitrary HTTP endpoint running on Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, or on-premises with your Cloud Scheduler job. Developers can manage everything from 1 dashboard.
Even as a no-tech user, Google says you do not need to know the intricacies of crontab to manage your running scripts. From a single UI or command-line interface, Google Cloud Scheduler allows you to view and manage all your jobs.
Pricing for the Google Cloud Scheduler is pay-per-use; where you pay for the number of jobs you consume per month.
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