Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

Scheduled tasks

The App Engine Cron Service gives developers a way to schedule regularly occurring tasks in the form of a cron.yaml definition file. This file specifies one or more tasks in the form of a description, a URL, and a human-readable schedule:

cron:- description: a basic description of the task's purpose  url: /example/endpoint  target: colors  schedule: every 30 minutes from 9:00 to 13:00  retry_parameters:    job_retry_limit: 3

Description	A human-readable description of the scheduled task
target	The service to be called, or default if not provided
url	The API endpoint on which to perform a GET request
schedule	The human-readable cron schedule
retry_parameters	Block defining retry logic for the scheduled ...