Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

CRON expression

In Azure Functions, a binding for a timer trigger will look like the following, where the schedule is defined by a CRON expression:

    {        "name": "name of the trigger parameter in function signature",        "type": "timerTrigger",        "direction": "in",        "schedule": "CRON Expression"    }

A CRON expression is a string, typically, used to define a schedule for a routine in job schedulers on Unix-like systems. A CRON expression is defined by six fields: {second}, {minute}, {hour}, {day}, {month}, and {day of the week}.

A * symbol in a CRON expression is an indicator for "every", such as every day, every hour, every day of the week, and so on. A / in the expression can be used to define the step values. For instance, */5 in the minutes field ...