Creating WebJobs

Working with WebJobs is much simpler than working with App Services, as this is a much easier service to configure and use. In fact, there are two ways of working with them:

• Using Azure Portal and deploying a job manually
• Using Visual Studio to develop and deploy it manually

What is more, you can leverage the WebJobs SDK to prepare an application triggered by an external service. This will be covered at the end of this chapter, and will be an excellent introduction to Azure Functions, described later in this book.

Creating and deploying WebJobs in Azure Portal

The easiest and quickest way to start working with WebJobs is to create a custom console application, perform an action, and then deploy it using...