Hi I need to run a periodic (nightly) background task for maintaining my system running in an Azure App Service -- Linux Python runtime. On a traditional VPS I would use cron for this task. Is cron the appropriate solution in the Azure App Service context? If not what would you recommend instead? If cron is appropriate is there anything I need to know in terms of the inherent impermanence of the system? I'm assuming that I would need to add the creation of the cron job to a custom deployment script, to ensure that it was in place any time the system was rebuilt.
Notes: I explored using WebJobs but, at the time of writing, the documentation says "WebJobs is not yet supported for App Service on Linux."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/webjobs-create