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cron support in node.js App Engine

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I apologize if this is the wrong place for this, but I am trying to deploy a node.js app to the App Engine with a cron job. I added the cron.yaml file to the app and deployed, but the job never gets executed.

cron.yaml:

cron:
- description: test cron job
  url: /api/crontest
  schedule: every 1 mins

The endpoint exists in my app and I can hit it directly from the browser, but it never executes from the cron. The only thing I see in the logs is an occasional cron: unrecognized service, but it does not correspond with the one minute frequency.

What am I missing? Is cron supported in the platform?

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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stephenpluspluscommented, Jun 10, 2016

Nice, thanks for coming back to share the answer!

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bamapookiecommented, Jun 10, 2016

I found the answer. I missed the previous page in the docs (here: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/java/yaml-configuration-files) that mentioned needing to run gcloud preview app deploy cron.yaml.

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