Google launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron service

Google Cloud is getting an overseen cron benefit for running clump employments. Cloud Scheduler, as the new administration is called, gives all the usefulness of the sort of standard direction line cron benefit you most likely love to detest, yet without hardly lifting a finger of utilization of running an overseen benefit in the cloud.

The objectives for Cloud Scheduler employments can be any HTTP/S endpoints and Google's very own Cloud Pub/Sub themes and App Engine applications. Designers can deal with these employments through a UI in the Google Cloud Console, a direction line interface and through an API.

"Employment schedulers like cron are a pillar of any engineer's arms stockpile, helping run booked assignments and mechanizing framework support," Google item chief Vinod Ramachandran notes in the present declaration. "Be that as it may, work schedulers have indistinguishable difficulties from other customary IT benefits: the need to deal with the basic framework, operational overhead of physically restarting fizzled employments and absence of perceivability into an occupation's status."

As Ramachandran likewise notes, Cloud Scheduler, which is as of now in beta, ensures the conveyance of a vocation to the objective, which guarantees that critical occupations are without a doubt began and in case you're sending the activity to AppEngine or Pub/Sub, those administrations will likewise restore a win code — or a blunder code, if things go astray. The organization focuses on that Cloud Scheduler additionally makes it simple to robotize retries when things turn out badly.

Google is clearly not the primary organization to hit upon this idea. There are a couple of new companies that additionally offer a comparative administration, and Google's rivals like Microsoft likewise offer tantamount devices.

Google gives designers a free standard of three (3) employments every month. Extra occupations cost $0.10 every month.