cron - Azure App Service - run crontab/scheduled task besides flask server

Question

I have an Azure App Service which runs a flask server. The startup command of the container is

gunicorn --bind=0.0.0.0 --workers=4 app:app

where app.py contains the flask server.

Is it possible to run a recurring task (python script) on the same machine? Any solution (crontab, launching a second python process) would be fine. I googled this but didn't find a way to do it in practice.

Any hints? Thanks!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65909763/azure-app-service-run-crontab-scheduled-task-besides-flask-server

Answer 1

Yes, you can use Azure Functions (which supports Python) with time trigger (cron format) and deploy it into the same app service you already have.