Create a job with Azure Container Apps using the Azure portal

Azure Container Apps jobs let you run containerized tasks that run for a limited time and then stop. You can start a job manually, set it to run on a schedule, or set it to run when certain events happen.

Jobs work well for tasks like data processing, machine learning, or any situation where you need processing on demand.

In this quickstart, you create a scheduled job. To learn how to create an event-driven job, see Deploy an event-driven job with Azure Container Apps.

Prerequisites

You need an Azure account with an active subscription. If you don't have one, you can create a trial subscription. Also, make sure the Resource Provider "Microsoft.App" is registered.

Setup

Sign in to the Azure portal.

Create a container app

To create your Container Apps job, start at the Azure portal home page.

1. Search for Container App Jobs in the top search bar.
2. Select Container App Jobs in the search results.
3. Select the Create button.

Basics tab

In the Basics tab, complete the following steps.

1. Enter the following values in the Project details section.

   Setting	Action
   Subscription	Select your Azure subscription.
   Resource group	Select Create new and enter jobs-quickstart.
   Container job name	Enter my-job.

Create an environment

Next, create an environment for your container app.

1. Select the appropriate region.

   Setting	Value
   Region	Select China North 3.

2. In the Create Container Apps environment field, select the Create new link.

3. In the Create Container Apps Environment page, on the Basics tab, enter the following values:

   Setting	Value
   Environment name	Enter my-environment.
   Zone redundancy	Select Disabled

4. Select the Create button at the bottom of the Create Container App Environment page.

Deploy the job

1. In Job details, select Scheduled for the Trigger type.

   In the Cron expression field, enter */1 * * * *.

   This expression starts the job every minute.

2. Select the Next: Container button at the bottom of the page.

3. In the Container tab, enter the following values:

   Setting	Value
   Name	Enter main-container.
   Image source	Select Docker Hub or other registries.
   Image type	Select Public.
   Registry login server	Enter mcr.microsoft.com.
   Image and tag	Enter k8se/quickstart-jobs:latest.
   Workload profile	Select Consumption.
   CPU and memory	Select 0.25 and 0.5Gi.

4. Select the Review and create button at the bottom of the page.

   As the portal verifies the settings in the job, if no errors are found, it enables the Create button.

   Any errors appear on a tab marked with a red dot. If you encounter errors, navigate to the appropriate tab and you find fields containing errors highlighted in red. Once you fix all errors, select Review and create again.

5. Select Create.

   A page with the message Deployment is in progress is displayed. Once the deployment is successful, you see the message: Your deployment is complete.

Verify deployment

1. Select Go to resource to view your new Container Apps job.

2. Select the Execution history tab.

   The Execution history tab displays the status of each job execution. Select the Refresh button to update the list. Wait up to a minute for the scheduled job execution to start. Its status changes from Pending to Running to Succeeded.

3. Select logs.

   The logs show the output of the job execution. It may take a few minutes for the logs to appear.

Clean up resources

If you don't plan to continue using this application, you can delete the Azure Container Apps instance and all the associated services by removing the resource group.

1. Select the jobs-quickstart resource group from the Overview section.
2. Select the Delete resource group button at the top of the resource group Overview.
3. Enter the resource group name jobs-quickstart in the Are you sure you want to delete "jobs-quickstart" confirmation dialog.
4. Select Delete.
   The process to delete the resource group might take a few minutes to complete.

Next steps