Managing and using the Azure Scheduler
The Azure Scheduler lets us create scheduled actions against an HTTP or HTTPS endpoint for a storage queue. By implementing complex infrastructures, we often need to schedule some actions with specific recurrence. Also, the Windows Task Scheduler helps us run custom processes in a scheduled fashion. However, having a Task Scheduler that runs on a user-managed VM involves maintenance and skills, although that is not to say that it is not a highly available solution, as the underlying VM represents a single point of failure.
The Azure Scheduler, via the Azure Portal or the Management API, lets us submit jobs of the following two types:
- HTTP endpoint call
- Message in queue
In the former case, we can customize the ...
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