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Workloads III: Job & CronJob

Job runs Pods to completion (a fixed number of successful completions) and stops -- the opposite of always-on services. CronJob is a Job template plus a schedule: it creates a new Job object at each s

Learning objectives

  • Explain precisely how a Job's success criteria differs from a Deployment's, and why that changes what "healthy" means.
  • Explain what a CronJob adds on top of a Job, and how its scheduling actually works.
  • Design a Job configuration with correct retry and parallelism settings for a batch-processing task.

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Workloads III: Job & CronJob

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