What is Job?
A Kubernetes workload that runs one or more pods to completion.
A Kubernetes Job creates one or more pods that run to completion. Unlike a Deployment (which keeps pods running), a Job ensures that a specified number of pods successfully terminate. Jobs support parallel execution via parallelism and completions fields. They're used for batch processing, database migrations, data exports, and one-off tasks. Use backoffLimit to control retry behavior on failure. CronJobs create Jobs on a schedule.
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Admission Controller
A Kubernetes plugin that intercepts API requests before objects are persisted.
Auto Scaling
Automatically adjusting the number of compute resources based on demand.
ClusterIP
The default Kubernetes Service type that exposes a service on an internal cluster IP.
ConfigMap
A Kubernetes object for storing non-sensitive configuration data as key-value pairs.
Controller Manager
Kubernetes control plane component running control loops to maintain desired state.
CoreDNS
The default DNS server in Kubernetes clusters for service discovery.
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