Can I easily stop/start Azure Webjobs without going through the UI or FTP?

Question

The Azure management interface is abhorrently slow to load up the web jobs list, and the new portal just times out and fails 95% of the time.

We have a lot of WebApps (often deployed per region) in Azure running web jobs. It's extremely cumbersome and slow to have to go through the UI to do all this.

I know that the Kudu API offers start/stop mechanisms for web jobs and you can just drop a file called 'disable.job' in the job folder to stop it, but these all require going through the extremely annoyingly slow UI to download publish credentials ($username, password).

Is there a PowerShell cmdlet I've somehow missed or a public script out there to help do this? Ideally I just want to supply my Azure credentials or import the certificates.

(Honestly, it's rather surprising that Microsoft's key cloud/DevOps product would be almost entirely UI-dependent, and on an extremely slow/useless UI at that.)

Answer 1

It's hard to find, but here's a link to the documentation for Start and Stop:

Start: Documentation

Example: Start-AzureWebsiteJob -Name MyWebsite -JobName MyWebJob -JobType Continuous

Stop: Documentation

Example: Stop-AzureWebsiteJob -Name MyWebsite -JobName MyWebJob

Answer 2

Al Muhandis,

Actually there is a Rest API that allows to pilot your web jobs.

It allows to list jobs, get a job detail, delete or upoad a job, and some few more,..

Have a look at : https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/WebJobs-API

Regards

Answer 3

Open your resource, web job at https://resources.azure.com. Should be something like https://resources.azure.com/subscriptions/<your subscription>/resourceGroups/<your group>/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/<your site name>/continuouswebjobs/<your job name> and open Powershell tab. There should be up to date samples on how to start / stop a WebJob:

# Action start
Invoke-AzureRmResourceAction -ResourceGroupName <your groupname> `
       -ResourceType Microsoft.Web/sites/continuouswebjobs `
       -ResourceName <your site name>/<your job> `
       -Action start  -ApiVersion 2018-02-01 -Force