Create a Scheduled Azure WebJob with PowerShell

There is a close relationship between Azure Scheduler and Azure WebJobs. Specifically Azure WebJobs does not have any internal support for scheduling, WebJobs relies on the Azure Scheduler to call into the *.scm.azurewebsites.net website.

As such it is possible to use PowerShell cmdlets for these services to setup Azure WebJobs to be triggered on schedule using Azure Scheduler.

$location = "North Europe";$site = New-AzureWebsite -Location $location `  -Name "amido-test-website";$job = New-AzureWebsiteJob -Name $site.Name `  -JobName "amido-test-job" `  -JobType Triggered `  -JobFile ~\Desktop\test.zip;$jobCollection = New-AzureSchedulerJobCollection `  -Location $location `  -JobCollectionName "amido-test-job-collection";$authPair = "$($site.PublishingUsername):$($site.PublishingPassword)";$pairBytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($authPair);$encodedPair = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($pairBytes);New-AzureSchedulerHttpJob `  -JobCollectionName $jobCollection[0].JobCollectionName `  -JobName "test" `  -Method POST `  -URI "$($job.Url)\run" `  -Location $location `  -StartTime "2014-01-01" `  -Interval 1 `  -Frequency Minute `  -EndTime "2015-01-01" `  -Headers @{ `    "Content-Type" = "text/plain"; `    "Authorization" = "Basic $encodedPair"; `  };

It's a little long winded so in plain english the above script does the following:

1. Creates a new Azure Website.
2. Creates and Uploads a new WebJob.
3. Creates a new Azure Scheduler Job Collection.
4. Generates the HTTP Basic Authentication header value.
5. Creates a new Azure Scheduler HTTP Job that makes an authenticated request to the *.scm.azurewebsites.net API.

Hope this saves a few other developers from scratching their head trying to figure this one out.