Do not wantthe cron job to restart with failure

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I have a cron job that sents automated emails to customers. The problem is it restarts every time it fails which i do not want.

I am running Kubernetes on GKE. To get it to stop, I have to delete the CronJob and then kill all the pods it creates manually.

apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: 2018-06-21T14:48:46Z
  name: dailytasks
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "20390223"
  selfLink: [redacted]
  uid: [redacted]
spec:
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 1
  jobTemplate:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
    spec:
      template:
        metadata:
          creationTimestamp: null
        spec:
          containers:
          - command:
            - kubernetes/daily_tasks.sh
            env:
            - name: DB_HOST
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  apiVersion: v1
                  fieldPath: status.hostIP
            envFrom:
            - secretRef:
                name: my-secrets
            image: [redacted]
            imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
            name: dailytasks
            resources: {}
            terminationMessagePath: /dev/termination-log
            terminationMessagePolicy: File
          dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
          restartPolicy: Never
          schedulerName: default-scheduler
          securityContext: {}
          terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 30
  schedule: 0 14 * * *
  successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 3
  suspend: true
status:
  active:
  - apiVersion: batch
    kind: Job
    name: dailytasks-1533218400
    namespace: default
    resourceVersion: "20383182"
    uid: [redacted]
  lastScheduleTime: 2018-08-02T14:00:00Z
Sep 18, 2018 in Kubernetes by lina
• 8,220 points
4,049 views

1 answer to this question.

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you have to set a backoffLimit: 0 in combination with restartPolicy: Never in combination with concurrencyPolicy: Forbid.

backoffLimit means the number of times it will try before it is considered failed. The default is 6.

concurrencyPolicy set to Forbid means it will run 0 or 1 times, but not more.

restartPolicy set to Never means it won't restart on failure.

You need to do all 3 of these things, or your cronjob may run more than once.

spec:
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 1
  jobTemplate:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
    spec:
      [ADD THIS -->]backoffLimit: 0
      template: 
      ........
answered Sep 18, 2018 by Kalgi
• 52,350 points

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