post image January 6, 2022 | 1 min Read

Jobs and CronJobs

Job

# Create job skeleton
kubectl  create job throw-dice-job --image=kodekloud/throw-dice --dry-run=client -o yaml > job.yaml

# Add few detail to a definition file
cat job.yaml
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: throw-dice-job
spec:
  parallelism: 3
  completions: 3
  template:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: kodekloud/throw-dice
        name: throw-dice-job
        resources: {}
      restartPolicy: Never
status: {}

CronJob

kubectl  create cronjob throw-dice-cron-job --image=kodekloud/throw-dice --schedule="30 21 * * *"
cronjob.batch/throw-dice-cron-job created
controlplane $

cat cron.yaml
apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: throw-dice-cron-job
spec:
  jobTemplate:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      name: throw-dice-cron-job
    spec:
      template:
        metadata:
          creationTimestamp: null
        spec:
          containers:
          - image: kodekloud/throw-dice
            name: throw-dice-cron-job
            resources: {}
          restartPolicy: OnFailure
  schedule: 30 21 * * *
status: {}
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Jan Toth

I have been in DevOps related jobs for past 6 years dealing mainly with Kubernetes in AWS and on-premise as well. I spent quite a lot …

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