Azure Web Jobs

A useful means to automate tasks in the cloud is by leveraging WebJobs hosted in Azure App Service. In this session Steef-Jan will go into the creation, deployment and operations of WebJobs. You will learn about the ins- and outs of Azure WebJobs and how they relate to other Azure Services like functions and logic apps.

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1. Inside Azure WebJobs STEEF-JAN WIGGERS
2. Steef-Jan Wiggers Principal Consultant • Microsoft Azure MVP • Published Author • (Inter)national Speaker • TechNet Wiki Author • Blogger • Forums • Runner • 12th Man DutchWorkz B.V.
3. Agenda
4. What are WebJobs?
5. WebJob – Console App
6. Many Options for Deploying
7. Publish WebJobs
8. Connection
9. Settings
10. Deploy
11. 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
12. How are they stored and started?
13. 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
14. Kudu
15. Function Triggers
16. Triggers and Bindings https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk
17. 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)
18. Real world scenario - 2 .VEE files EDI format MPR WebJob (Parsing) EDI to JSON Storage blob Push Storage blob
19. Real world scenario - 3 WebJobs LMS365 API Logic Apps Dynamics CRM Online
20. WebJobs in action!
21. WebJob Extensibility https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-extensions
22. Alternatives
23. Logic App
24. Competition - AWS
25. Wrap up
26. Resources http://bit.ly/1KdUkIH https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-samples
27. Contact SteefJan@msn.com