Are you able to schedule Functions?

So I think this has two parts to answer your question:

• App Platform <> functions currently support HTTP ingress activation, meaning that if you were to request the function at the App’s domain for the function component’s route, you will be able to run your function through HTTP. (https://mycoolapp.digitalocean.app/my-function/path/to/function)
• At this time there isn’t a DigitalOcean provided mechanism to schedule something to run a function a particular time.

That isn’t to say that you can’t build this behavior yourself.

For example, if you had a subroutine in a web service or worker component that simply watched the time in a loop and reached out to the function component’s URI at a specific time, you can achieve what you’re trying to implement for the most part.

This isn’t a fault-tolerant approach, and it wouldn’t be idempotent by default. Things that go wrong could be:

• If you had multiple replicas of your worker/service, it would hit the function url ${num replicas} times.
• If your worker/service restarts around the time that you’re looking to schedule your function, it may not be scheduled.

These are problems that can be solved with a more robust design, and probably should be designed in such a manner when in a production context, but is currently how functions can be scheduled at specific times through App Platform.