How to create a cron job using Cloud scheduler in GCP

Question

I want to schedule startup and shutdown of my VM instance automatically. I found that they use Cloud scheduler for this purpose. How do I create a cron job using cloud scheduler?

Answer 1

In order to create a Job using Cloud Scheduler, follow these steps: 

1. Visit the Cloud Scheduler page in the console:

2. Click the Create job button.

3. Give your job a name and optionally add a description
   
   

4. Specify the frequency for your job, using the unix-cron format.

   * * * * *

5. Select your timezone.

6. In the Target field, select Pub/Sub topic from the dropdown menu and enter the topic you created earlier (cron-topic).

7. Add a Payload string to be sent to your Cloud Pub/Sub target.
   
   

8. Click Create.

You now have a job that sends a message to your Cloud Pub/Sub topic every minute.  

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