gcloud scheduler create jobs when already exist

Question

I create my gcloud scheduler in command line with

gcloud scheduler jobs create

but when I already deploy my gitlabCI, i got already exist error.

is it possible to overwrite if already exist directly in my gitlabCI?

Answer 1

Suppose you create a Cloud Schedule job with the following attribute values

gcloud scheduler jobs create JOB --location=LOCATION

JOB	LOCATION
my-job	us-west1

gcloud scheduler jobs create my-job --location=us-west1

In order to verify if the job already exists you may use the gcloud schedule jobs describe JOB command using gcloud CLI.eg https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/scheduler/jobs/describe

gcloud scheduler jobs describe my-job --location=us-west1

If it indeed already exists, there is no direct way of "overwriting" the existing one, what you can do is to

• either delete the previous job and re-create it from scratch eg

gcloud scheduler jobs delete my-job
gcloud scheduler jobs create my-job

• or you can modify the existing job, for instance when you deploy a new version of a service to AppEngine, you can simply reflect this on your existing Cloud Scheduler job without the need to re-creating it entirely.

gcloud scheduler jobs update app-engine my-job --version=VERSION

For more information, please refer to the official documentation for Cloud SDK on Cloud Scheduler https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/scheduler