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Cloud Scheduler

Fully managed cron.

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Overview

Cloud Scheduler triggers HTTP, Pub/Sub or App Engine targets on a cron schedule with retries.

When to use it

  • Nightly regression triggers
  • Periodic health checks

Setup

  1. Enable Cloud Scheduler API.
  2. Create job with cron expression and target.

How to use

Nightly regression
gcloud scheduler jobs create http nightly-qa \
  --schedule='0 2 * * *' --uri=https://qa-runner.run.app/start --http-method=POST

QA use cases

  • Trigger Cloud Run job that executes the nightly e2e suite.