❯ Guillaume Laforge

Scheduler

Schedule a Workflow Execution

There are different ways to launch the execution of a workflow. In previous articles, we mentioned that you can use the gcloud command-line tool to create an execution, you can also use the various client libraries to invoke Workflows, or use the REST API. A workflow itself can also invoke other workflows!

But today, I’d like to tell you how to schedule the execution of a workflow. For that purpose, we’ll take advantage of Cloud Scheduler. The documentation is actually covering this topic in detail, so be sure to grab all the info there. However, I’ll go quickly through the steps, and tell you about a nice new feature in the cloud console to ease the scheduling of workflows!

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