Azure Webjobs are missing after deployment of App Service or web app

Webjobs are missing after deployment of App Service or web app

Issue:

·       My web jobs are deleted after deployment.

·       I am not able to see webjobs in the portal

·       I am sure I haven’t deleted it

Solution:

This is very common scenario. Many users face this issue which is very critical sometimes as web job can be performing some critical business scenario.

One important point which everyone should know is, webjobs are deployed inside App_Data folder inside WWWROOT of your app service.

The complete path depends on type of webjobs.

Triggered webjobs path - WWWROOT\app_data\jobs\triggered\ {job name}

Continuous webjobs path- WWWROOT\app_data\jobs\continuous\ {job name}

You can see clearly that both webjobs are stored inside the app_data folder.

Now due to some reason if either App_Data folder is deleted during deployment or we publish web app with option “remove additional files at destination” while App_Data folder is not part of source code then it will delete existing App_Data Folder.

Here I am giving example for DevOps aka VSTS where we have 2 options,

·        Remove additional files at destination

·        Exclude files from the App_Data folder

You can check this in the official document also,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/deploy/azure-rm-web-app-deployment?view=azure-devops#web-deploy

I believe this explains the issue and help us to understand why my webjobs are missing.

Make sure you take care of this checkbox during deployment if you have any web job.