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In this article:

  • Setting up asynchronous invocation
  • Invoke the function
  • See also
  1. Step-by-step guides
  2. Invoking a function
  3. Invoking a function asynchronously

Invoking a function asynchronously

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Updated at May 5, 2025
  • Setting up asynchronous invocation
  • Invoke the function
  • See also

Note

This feature is at the Preview stage.

Setting up asynchronous invocationSetting up asynchronous invocation

Management console
CLI
Terraform
API
  1. In the management console, select the folder containing the function.
  2. Select Cloud Functions.
  3. Select a function.
  4. Go to the Editor tab.
  5. Under Asynchronous call, switch the Enable toggle to on.
  6. In the Number of retries field, specify the number of invocation retries before the call is considered failed.
  7. In the Service account field, specify a service account with rights to invoke the function.
  8. In the Destination for successful result and Destination for unsuccessful result fields, specify where messages on successful and unsuccessful function calls should be sent to, respectively:
    • Not specified: Do not send messages.
    • Message Queue: Send messages to a queue in Message Queue:
      • Message Queue: Queue in Message Queue to send messages to.
      • Service account: Service account with rights to write messages to the queue.
  9. Click Save changes.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified when creating the CLI profile is used by default. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

To set up asynchronous invocation, run the following command:

yc serverless function version create \
  --function-name=<function_name> \
  --runtime <runtime_environment> \
  --entrypoint <entry_point> \
  --memory <RAM_size> \
  --execution-timeout <execution_timeout> \
  --source-version-id <version_ID> \
  --async-max-retries <number_of_retry_attempts> \
  --async-service-account-id <service_account_ID> \
  --async-success-ymq-arn <message_queue> \
  --async-success-sa-id <service_account_ID> \
  --async-failure-ymq-arn <message_queue> \
  --async-failure-sa-id <service_account_ID>

Where:

  • --function-name: Function name.
  • --runtime: Runtime environment.
  • --entrypoint: Entry point in <function_file_name>.<handler_name> format.
  • --memory: Amount of RAM.
  • --execution-timeout: Maximum function running time before the timeout is reached.
  • --source-version-id: ID of the function version from which you want to copy the code.
  • --async-max-retries: Number of retries before the invocation fails.
  • --async-service-account-id: ID of the service account with permissions to invoke the function.
  • --async-success-ymq-arn: ARN of the destination queue in Message Queue for messages about successful function invocations. If you skip this parameter, no messages will be sent.
  • --async-success-sa-id: ID of the service account with permissions to write to the async-success-ymq-arn queue.
  • --async-failure-ymq-arn: ARN of the destination queue in Message Queue for messages about failed function invocations. If you skip this parameter, no messages will be sent.
  • --async-failure-sa-id: ID of the service account with permissions to write to the async-failure-ymq-arn queue.

With Terraform, you can quickly create a cloud infrastructure in Yandex Cloud and manage it using configuration files. These files store the infrastructure description written in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). If you change the configuration files, Terraform automatically detects which part of your configuration is already deployed, and what should be added or removed.

Terraform is distributed under the Business Source License. The Yandex Cloud provider for Terraform is distributed under the MPL-2.0 license.

For more information about the provider resources, see the documentation on the Terraform website or mirror website.

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure its Yandex Cloud provider.

To set up asynchronous invocation:

  1. Open the Terraform configuration file and add the async_invocation section to the function description:

    resource "yandex_function" "test-function" {
      name               = "<function_name>"
      user_hash          = "<function_hash>"
      runtime            = "<runtime_environment>"
      entrypoint         = "<entry_point>"
      memory             = "<RAM_size>"
      execution_timeout  = "<execution_timeout>"
      service_account_id = "<service_account_ID>"
    
      async_invocation {
        retries_count       = "<number_of_retry_attempts>"
        service_account_id  = "<service_account_ID>"
        ymq_failure_target {
          service_account_id = "<service_account_ID>"
          arn                = "<message_queue>"
        }
        ymq_success_target {
          service_account_id = "service_account_ID"
          arn                = "<message_queue>"
        }
      }
    }
    

    Where:

    • async_invocation: Asynchronous invocation parameters:
      • retries_count: Number of retries before the invocation fails.
      • service_account_id: Service account with permissions to invoke the function.
      • ymq_failure_target: Parameters of the queue for failed invocations:
        • service_account_id: Service account with permissions to write to the queue for failed asynchronous invocations.
        • arn: ARN of the destination queue in Message Queue for messages about failed function invocations. If you skip this parameter, no messages will be sent.
      • ymq_success_target: Parameters of the queue for successful invocations:
        • service_account_id: Service account with permissions to write to the queue for successful asynchronous invocations.
        • arn: ARN of the destination queue in Message Queue for messages about successful function invocations. If you skip this parameter, no messages will be sent.

    For more information about the yandex_function resource properties, see the provider documentation.

  2. Apply the changes:

    1. In the terminal, change to the folder where you edited the configuration file.

    2. Make sure the configuration file is correct using the command:

      terraform validate
      

      If the configuration is correct, the following message is returned:

      Success! The configuration is valid.
      
    3. Run the command:

      terraform plan
      

      The terminal will display a list of resources with parameters. No changes are made at this step. If the configuration contains errors, Terraform will point them out.

    4. Apply the configuration changes:

      terraform apply
      
    5. Confirm the changes: type yes in the terminal and press Enter.

You can check the function update and its settings using the management console or this CLI command:

yc serverless function version get <function_version_ID>

To set up asynchronous invocation, use the createVersion REST API method for the Function resource or the FunctionService/CreateVersion gRPC API call.

Invoke the functionInvoke the function

Invoke the function using the HTTPS protocol and specifying the ?integration=async query string parameter.

See alsoSee also

  • Asynchronous function invocation

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