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Chapter 33. Jobs
33.1. Overview
A job, in contrast to a replication controller, runs a pod with any number of replicas to completion. A job tracks the overall progress of a task and updates its status with information about active, succeeded, and failed pods. Deleting a job will clean up any pod replicas it created. Jobs are part of the Kubernetes API, which can be managed with oc
commands like other object types.
See the Kubernetes documentation for more information about jobs.
33.2. Creating a Job
A job configuration consists of the following key parts:
- A pod template, which describes the application the pod will create.
-
An optional
parallelism
parameter, which specifies how many pod replicas running in parallel should execute a job. If not specified, this defaults to the value in thecompletions
parameter. -
An optional
completions
parameter, specifying how many concurrently running pods should execute a job. If not specified, this value defaults to one.
The following is an example of a job
resource:
apiVersion: batch/v1 kind: Job metadata: name: pi spec: parallelism: 1 1 completions: 1 2 template: 3 metadata: name: pi spec: containers: - name: pi image: perl command: ["perl", "-Mbignum=bpi", "-wle", "print bpi(2000)"] restartPolicy: OnFailure 4
-
Optional value for how many pod replicas a job should run in parallel; defaults to
completions
. - Optional value for how many successful pod completions are needed to mark a job completed; defaults to one.
- Template for the pod the controller creates.
- The restart policy of the pod. This does not apply to the job controller. See Section 33.2.1, “Known Limitations” for details.
You can also create and launch a job from a single command using oc run
. The following command creates and launches the same job as specified in the previous example:
$ oc run pi --image=perl --replicas=1 --restart=OnFailure \ --command -- perl -Mbignum=bpi -wle 'print bpi(2000)'
33.2.1. Known Limitations
The job specification restart policy only applies to the pods, and not the job controller. However, the job controller is hard-coded to keep retrying jobs to completion.
As such, restartPolicy: Never
or --restart=Never
results in the same behavior as restartPolicy: OnFailure
or --restart=OnFailure
. That is, when a job fails it is restarted automatically until it succeeds (or is manually discarded). The policy only sets which subsystem performs the restart.
With the Never
policy, the job controller performs the restart. With each attempt, the job controller increments the number of failures in the job status and create new pods. This means that with each failed attempt, the number of pods increases.
With the OnFailure
policy, kubelet performs the restart. Each attempt does not increment the number of failures in the job status. In addition, kubelet will retry failed jobs starting pods on the same nodes.
33.3. Scaling a Job
A job can be scaled up or down by using the oc scale
command with the --replicas
option, which, in the case of jobs, modifies the spec.parallelism
parameter. This will result in modifying the number of pod replicas running in parallel, executing a job.
The following command uses the example job above, and sets the parallelism
parameter to three:
$ oc scale job pi --replicas=3
Scaling replication controllers also uses the oc scale
command with the --replicas
option, but instead changes the replicas
parameter of a replication controller configuration.
33.4. Setting Maximum Duration
When defining a Job
, you can define its maximum duration by setting the activeDeadlineSeconds
field. It is specified in seconds and is not set by default. When not set, there is no maximum duration enforced.
The maximum duration is counted from the time when a first pod gets scheduled in the system, and defines how long a job can be active. It tracks overall time of an execution and is irrelevant to the number of completions (number of pod replicas needed to execute a task). After reaching the specified timeout, the job is terminated by OpenShift Container Platform.
The following example shows the part of a Job
specifying activeDeadlineSeconds
field for 30 minutes:
spec: activeDeadlineSeconds: 1800