I have a batch application which need to be ported to Bluemix. Are there any scheduler available on bluemix where i can schedule my batch application or only way is to host it as web application and trigger the url via an external scheduler.
Atul you can try using the workload scheduler for your task.
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/services/workload-scheduler/
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We have a requirement to migrate mainframe batch jobs to PCF cloud but as 3R's of security Rotate, Repave and Repair it might be possible that in the instance where batch job is running as spring batch that instance can be repaved/repair and our running jobs got terminated. In that scenario how to ensure that during repavement/repair of an PCF instance our jobs will not get impacted. We are looking for best way to migrate jobs in PCF cloud, any help/suggestion will be really helpful.
I am building a data pipeline for batch processing. And I find that Spring Cloud Data Flow is a quite attractive framework to use. Without much knowledge in SCDF and Kubernetes, I am not sure whether it is possible to conditionally launch a Spring Cloud Task on a specific machine.
Suppose I have two physical servers that are for running the batch process (Server A and Server B). By default, I would like my Spring cloud task to be launched on Server A. If the Server A is shut down, the task should be deployed on server B. Can Kubernetes / SCDF handle this kind of mechanism? I am wondering whether the nodeselector is the thing that I should look into.
Yes, you can pass deployment.nodeSelector as a deployment property when launching the task.
The deployment.nodeSelector is a Kubernetes deployment property and hence, you need to pass something like this:
task launch mytask --properties "deployer.<taskAppName>.kubernetes.deployment.nodeSelector=foo1:bar1,foo2:bar2"
You can check the list of supported Kubernetes deployer properties here
I’m setting up a new Spring Batch Jobs and want to deploy it using SCDF. However, I have found that SCDF does not support scheduler feature in local framework.
I have 3 questions to ask you:
Can someone explain how scheduler of SCDF work?
Are there any ways to schedule 1 job using SCDF?
Can I use my local server as a Cloud Foundry? and how?
Yes, Spring Cloud Data Flow does not support scheduling on local platform. Please note that the local SCDF server is for development purposes only and by design, the scheduling support is intended to be relying on the platform. Hence, SCDF scheduling feature is supported on Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes using the CF and K8s schedulers.
1) Can s/o explain how scheduler of SCDF work?
sure, Similar to how the deployer is used for launching task/deploying the stream, there is an SPI for scheduling the tasks under spring-cloud-deployer project. The underlying scheduler implementations can implement this. Currently, we have CF and K8s scheduler implementations in spring-cloud-deployer-cloudfoundry and spring-cloud-deployer-kubernetes.
As a user, you can configure a scheduler for a task (batch) application (via SCDF Dashboard, shell etc.,). You can specify a cron expression to schedule the task. Once configured, the SCDF delegates the schedule request to the platform scheduler using the above-mentioned scheduler implementations. Once scheduled, it is the platform (PCF scheduler on CF, K8s scheduler on K8s) that takes care of the task using the schedule.
2) Are there any ways to schedule 1 job using SCDF?
Yes, based on the answer from 1
3) Can I use my local server as a cloud Foundry? and How?
To run SCDF on local pointing to the CF instance, you can set the necessary CF deployer properties and start the SCDF server instance. It is similar to how you configure multi platforms in SCDF server. You can find more documentation on this here.
When I publish my application to IIS server, quartz scheduler stop working after some time.In my local machine IIS server it works fine.
I need to perform some functionality every day at 11:55 pm.
By default, IIS recycles an application pool after some inactivity time. I guess this is your problem. The application will be just shutdown if nobody uses it.
While it is possible to make the application pool in IIS to run forever, it is still better to not schedule background tasks using web applications.
Use windows services or just simple Windows Task Scheduler for scheduling.
There are a couple of good solutions for scheduling background tasks with C# in .Net:
Topshelf
Hangfire
Here is a nice topic about using both solutions "Setting up windows service with Topshelf and HangFire"
I am trying out Google Cloud from a .NET web app and I am looking for a queue system for background tasks.
Is there a queue service in Google Cloud Storage (similar to Azure/ Amazon AWS queue)?
Try the Task Queue: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/taskqueue/
"With the Task Queue API, applications can perform work outside of a user request, initiated by a user request. If an app needs to execute some background work, it can use the Task Queue API to organize that work into small, discrete units, called tasks. The app adds tasks to task queues to be executed later."