Inside Azure WebJobs STEEF-JAN WIGGERS

Steef-Jan Wiggers Principal Consultant • Microsoft Azure MVP • Published Author • (Inter)national Speaker • TechNet Wiki Author • Blogger • Forums • Runner • 12th Man DutchWorkz B.V.

Agenda

What are WebJobs?

WebJob – Console App

Many Options for Deploying

Publish WebJobs

Connection

Settings

Deploy

Kudu • Engine behind git deployments and WebJobs • Can be run outside of Azure • Provides dashboard functionality for a website Project Site https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu

How are they stored and started?

Paths & Files File/Path disable.job Existence of file stops the job. Deleting it starts the job. settings.job Allows you to indicate: is_singleton to scale with website. { “is_singleton”: true } or { “is_singleton”: false } site\wwwroot\App_Data\jobs\continuous Path for continuous web jobs site\wwwroot\App_Data\jobs\triggered Path for on demand and scheduled web jobs data\jobs Data directories for jobs job_log.txt Text file of web job log status_{hash} Status file WebJobsSDK.marker Singleton lock file

Kudu

Function Triggers

Triggers and Bindings https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk

Real world scenario - 1 Self-Service Portal API Management Outbound Inbound WebAPI WebAPI VIP Web Job Azure cache (REDIS) To Redis Storage (Azure) Web Job Dashboard Administrator/ Developer Portal Datastore Nuon (Windows) Service (Windows) Service Inbound Web Job Azure cache (REDIS)

Real world scenario - 2 .VEE files EDI format MPR WebJob (Parsing) EDI to JSON Storage blob Push Storage blob

Real world scenario - 3 WebJobs LMS365 API Logic Apps Dynamics CRM Online

WebJobs in action!

WebJob Extensibility https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-extensions

Alternatives

Logic App

Competition - AWS

Wrap up

Resources http://bit.ly/1KdUkIH https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-samples

Contact SteefJan@msn.com