Azure Web Job

Web job is a process that runs in the background. It complements the main application. In other words, it is supporting mechanism to an existing application.

There are 2 types of Web Jobs:

1. Continuous Web Job
2. Triggered Web Job

Continuous Web Job runs until it stopped.

Triggered Web Job will only run when triggered.

Triggered Web Job can start in 2 ways:

1. Manual
2. Scheduled

Observations:

• Web job can be configured on any existing Azure App Service (Web App or Web Api)
• Web job supports .exe, .ps, .cmd etc.
• Dotnet framework console application can be configured as Web Job
• By default, dotnet core console project output is dll. Hence may not be able to configure directly
• Web job can be scheduled using CRON expressions