Best approach to enqueue long-running run jobs?

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Hi! I have the following scenario:

Front-end → Cloud Run Service on serverless mode.

Based on the user action, it will call a long running and parameterized process, which can take more than one hour to complete.

Important: I CAN’T have two of this process running at same time, for data conflict reasons. I have to enqueue these processes.

What is the best approach to do that on GCP?

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Hello @sidnei_becker ,

Welcome to the Google Cloud Community!

To handle long-running, parameterized processes on GCP, you can use Cloud Tasks with Cloud Functions . Here’s a simple workflow:

  1. The front-end triggers your Cloud Run service.
  2. The Cloud Run service adds the task with parameters to a Cloud Tasks queue.
  3. Cloud Tasks automatically triggers your Cloud Function.
  4. The Cloud Function executes the long-running process with the provided parameters.

Cloud Tasks is a managed service that queues and executes tasks asynchronously, with built-in retry capabilities.

For more details, you can check out the documentation for Cloud Tasks and the tutorial for Cloud Functions.

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