Kubernetes Jobs & CronJobs Explained ⚙️ Automate Tasks Easily

Learn how to automate and schedule your Kubernetes workloads with Jobs and CronJobs in this hands-on tutorial! 🚀 This video explains how to create, monitor, and debug Kubernetes Jobs for one-time tasks and CronJobs for recurring schedules — step by step on Rocky Linux using Minikube, but works on any Linux distro. Perfect for DevOps engineers and system administrators who want to master Kubernetes automation and task scheduling with real-world examples.

✔️ Understand what Jobs & CronJobs are in Kubernetes
🔥 Learn how to write YAML definitions for Jobs & CronJobs
⚙️ Run and verify Jobs on Minikube (Rocky Linux demo)
🧰 Schedule recurring Jobs using Cron expressions
💡 Debug failed Jobs and view Pod logs like a pro

🧩 Commands Used in This Video:
Create a CronJob YAML file
kubectl apply -f print-time-cronjob.yaml

View the created CronJob
kubectl get cronjobs

Describe the CronJob for more details
kubectl describe cronjob print-time-cron

List jobs created by the CronJob
kubectl get jobs -l job-name=print-time-cron

List all pods
kubectl get pods

View logs of a specific pod
kubectl logs pod-name

Manually trigger the CronJob (if needed)
kubectl create job --from=cronjob/print-time-cron manual-job

Delete the CronJob
kubectl delete cronjob print-time-cron

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📚 Chapters
0:00 🎬 Intro to Jobs and CronJobs
0:29 ❓ Why We Need Jobs
1:41 ⚙️ What is a Job?
2:54 🔑 Key Job Features
4:38 📝 One-Time Job Example
5:52 🚀 Job Deployment Steps
7:08 ⏫ Advanced Job Example
9:09 ⏱️ What is a CronJob?
9:54 🗝️ CronJob Features & Uses
11:06 ⏰ CronJob Schedule Syntax
11:56 🛑 CronJob: Deadline Seconds
12:22 🚦 CronJob: Concurrency Policy
13:00 ⏸️ CronJob: Suspend
13:35 📝 CronJob Example YAML
15:43 💾 Real-World CronJob: Backup
16:54 🥇 Best Practices
17:59 ⚠️ Common CronJob Pitfalls
20:04 📊 Comparison

💻 Demo: Kubernetes Job
24:51 🧠 Recap and Demo Setup
25:50 ✨ Demo: Create Job YAML
28:24 🚀 Demo: Initial Failure
29:34 🐛 Demo: Debug and Fix
31:59 ✅ Demo: Run Fixed Job
33:37 🕰️ Demo: TTL Auto-Cleanup

💻 Demo: Kubernetes CronJob
36:50 ✨ Demo: Create CronJob YAML
39:43 🚀 Demo: Apply CronJob
41:54 ⏱️ Demo: Check Status
43:24 🔄 Demo: Watch Jobs Run
47:04 🧹 Demo: Clean Up
47:43 🏁 Final Summary
48:24 👋 Outro

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