private static async Task MainAsync() { string poolId = "JobPrepReleaseSamplePool"; string jobId = "JobPrepReleaseSampleJob"; var settings = Config.LoadAccountSettings(); // Location of the file that the job tasks will work with, a text file in the // node's "shared" directory. string taskOutputFile = "$AZ_BATCH_NODE_SHARED_DIR/job_prep_and_release.txt"; // The job prep task will write the node ID to the text file in the shared directory string jobPrepCmdLine = $@"/bin/bash -c ""echo $AZ_BATCH_NODE_ID tasks: > {taskOutputFile}"""; // Each task then echoes its ID to the same text file string taskCmdLine = $@"/bin/bash -c ""echo $AZ_BATCH_TASK_ID >> {taskOutputFile}"""; // The job release task will then delete the text file from the shared directory string jobReleaseCmdLine = $@"/bin/bash -c ""rm {taskOutputFile}"""; BatchSharedKeyCredentials cred = new BatchSharedKeyCredentials(settings.BatchServiceUrl, settings.BatchAccountName, settings.BatchAccountKey); using (BatchClient batchClient = BatchClient.Open(cred)) { var pool = await BatchUtils.CreatePoolIfNotExistAsync(batchClient, poolId); var prepTask = new JobPreparationTask { CommandLine = jobPrepCmdLine }; var releaseTask = new JobReleaseTask { CommandLine = jobReleaseCmdLine }; var job = await BatchUtils.CreateJobIfNotExistAsync(batchClient, pool.Id, jobId, prepTask : prepTask, releaseTask : releaseTask); // Create the tasks that the job will execute List <CloudTask> tasks = new List <CloudTask>(); for (int i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { string taskId = "task" + i.ToString().PadLeft(3, '0'); string taskCommandLine = taskCmdLine; CloudTask task = new CloudTask(taskId, taskCommandLine); tasks.Add(task); } // Add the tasks in one API call as opposed to a separate AddTask call for each. Bulk task // submission helps to ensure efficient underlying API calls to the Batch service. Console.WriteLine("Submitting tasks and awaiting completion..."); await batchClient.JobOperations.AddTaskAsync(job.Id, tasks); // Wait for the tasks to complete before proceeding. The long timeout here is to allow time // for the nodes within the pool to be created and started if the pool had not yet been created. await batchClient.Utilities.CreateTaskStateMonitor().WhenAll( job.ListTasks(), TaskState.Completed, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(30)); Console.WriteLine("All tasks completed."); Console.WriteLine(); // Print the contents of the shared text file modified by the job preparation and other tasks. ODATADetailLevel nodeDetail = new ODATADetailLevel(selectClause: "id, state"); IPagedEnumerable <ComputeNode> nodes = batchClient.PoolOperations.ListComputeNodes(poolId, nodeDetail); await nodes.ForEachAsync(async (node) => { // Check to ensure that the node is Idle before attempting to pull the text file. // If the pool was just created, there is a chance that another node completed all // of the tasks prior to the other node(s) completing their startup procedure. if (node.State == ComputeNodeState.Idle) { var files = await node.ListNodeFiles().ToListAsync(); NodeFile sharedTextFile = await node.GetNodeFileAsync("shared/job_prep_and_release.txt"); Console.WriteLine("Contents of {0} on {1}:", sharedTextFile.Path, node.Id); Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------------------"); Console.WriteLine(await sharedTextFile.ReadAsStringAsync()); } }); // Terminate the job to mark it as Completed; this will initiate the Job Release Task on any node // that executed job tasks. Note that the Job Release Task is also executed when a job is deleted, // thus you need not call Terminate if you typically delete your jobs upon task completion. await batchClient.JobOperations.TerminateJobAsync(job.Id); // Wait for the job to reach state "Completed." Note that this wait is not typically necessary in // production code, but is done here to enable the checking of the release tasks exit code below. await BatchUtils.WaitForJobToReachStateAsync(batchClient, job.Id, JobState.Completed, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2)); // Print the exit codes of the prep and release tasks by obtaining their execution info List <JobPreparationAndReleaseTaskExecutionInformation> prepReleaseInfo = await batchClient.JobOperations.ListJobPreparationAndReleaseTaskStatus(job.Id).ToListAsync(); foreach (JobPreparationAndReleaseTaskExecutionInformation info in prepReleaseInfo) { Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("{0}: ", info.ComputeNodeId); // If no tasks were scheduled to run on the node, the JobPreparationTaskExecutionInformation will be null if (info.JobPreparationTaskExecutionInformation != null) { Console.WriteLine(" Prep task exit code: {0}", info.JobPreparationTaskExecutionInformation.ExitCode); } // If no tasks were scheduled to run on the node, the JobReleaseTaskExecutionInformation will be null if (info.JobReleaseTaskExecutionInformation != null) { Console.WriteLine(" Release task exit code: {0}", info.JobReleaseTaskExecutionInformation.ExitCode); } } // Clean up the resources we've created in the Batch account Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("Delete job? [yes] no"); string response = Console.ReadLine().ToLower(); if (response != "n" && response != "no") { // Note that deleting the job will execute the job release task if the job was not previously terminated await batchClient.JobOperations.DeleteJobAsync(job.Id); } Console.WriteLine("Delete pool? [yes] no"); response = Console.ReadLine(); if (response != "n" && response != "no") { await batchClient.PoolOperations.DeletePoolAsync(poolId); } } }