How can I trigger a Kubernetes Scheduled Job manually?
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I've created a Kubernetes Scheduled Job, which runs twice a day according to its schedule. However, I would like to trigger it manually for testing purposes. How can I do this?
Scheduled Tasks Solutions
Solution 1 - Scheduled Tasks
The issue #47538 that @jdf mentioned is now closed and this is now possible. The original implementation can be found here but the syntax has changed.
With kubectl v1.10.1+ the command is:
kubectl create job --from=cronjob/<cronjob-name> <job-name>
It seems to be backwardly compatible with older clusters as it worked for me on v0.8.x.
Solution 2 - Scheduled Tasks
You can create a simple job based on your ScheduledJob. If you already run a ScheduledJob, there are jobs in history.
kubectl get jobs
NAME DESIRED SUCCESSFUL AGE
hello-1477281595 1 1 11m
hello-1553106750 1 1 12m
hello-1553237822 1 1 9m
Export one of these jobs:
kubectl get job hello-1477281595 -o yaml > my_job.yaml
Then edit the yaml a little bit, erasing some unnecessary fields and run it manually:
kubectl create -f my_job.yaml
kubectl delete -f my_job.yaml
Solution 3 - Scheduled Tasks
Unfortunately, none of the example syntaxes above works in Google Kubernetes Engine (GCP). Also, the GKE docs themselves are wrong.
In Kubernetes 1.10.6.gke-2
, the working syntax is:
kubectl create job <your-new-job-name> --from=cronjob/<name-of-deployed-cron-job> -n <target namespace>
Solution 4 - Scheduled Tasks
EDIT - July 2018: see @pedro_sland's answer as this feature has now been implemented
My original answer below will remain correct for older versions of kubectl less than v1.10.1
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Aside from creating a new job (as the other answers have suggested), there is no current way to do this. It is a feature request in with kubernetes now that can be tracked here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/47538
Solution 5 - Scheduled Tasks
kubectl create job --from=cronjob/<cron-job-name> <job-name> -n <namespace>
you can use the kubectl delete job <job-name> -n <namespace>
if you want to see the list of corn jobs available use kubectl get cronjobs -n <namespace>
Solution 6 - Scheduled Tasks
There is an option to trigger the cron job manually whithin this tab in k8s dashboard
Solution 7 - Scheduled Tasks
I've created a small cmd utility for convenience to do just that and also suspend and unsuspend cronjobs.