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Overview of Cloud Scheduler

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Overview of Cloud Scheduler

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- [Narrator] Google Cloud Scheduler is a fully managed cron jobs scheduling service for the cloud. It's basically the cron jobs for the cloud. It lets you configure triggers to create requests to specific HTTPS endpoints, or send messages to Pub/Sub topics at a given schedule. This is useful, for example, for sending summary emails to your users every day at 7am. Or for deactivating users every midnight, if they haven't logged in for more than a month. Or running a backup script every Sunday midnight. Let's create our first job by pressing this button. It takes us to this form, to configure the details of the scheduled job that we're making. First, we give it a name, it has to be a unique name to this project, and then give it a description. Next, we configure the frequency. Now this frequency uses the Unix cron format. Let's take a look at it by clicking on learn more. So basically, it's a set of five values, each…

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