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?

score 253 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 05 '19 at 08:24

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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.

edited Sep 05 '19 at 08:24

Ivan Aracki

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answered Apr 26 '18 at 11:02

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Be sure to check your version of kubectl, as of 5/10/18 the version installed via Google Cloud SDK doesn't have this command available. `gcloud components install kubectl` then https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/ – Scott Jungwirth May 15 '18 at 17:24

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 04 '16 at 01:51

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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

answered Nov 04 '16 at 01:51

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Just small addition about "erasing some unnecessary fields". Kubernetes is complaining about `*uid` fields and you can remove them easily by this command `sed -i '/uid:.*/d' my_job.yaml` – Aleksandr Podkutin Sep 18 '18 at 11:05
Assumption that there are already jobs in the history often does not hold. – Andrew Savinykh Jan 13 '19 at 20:37

jdf · Answer 3 · 2019-01-02T20:53:02.680

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

score 9 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 18 '20 at 21:14

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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>

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answered Sep 25 '18 at 18:46

Joseph Lust

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awesome to troubleshoot problems with cron jobs resiliency, thanks! – lauksas May 12 '20 at 17:00

score 6 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 02 '20 at 19:03

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There is an option to trigger the cron job manually whithin this tab in k8s dashboard

See image

edited Jul 02 '20 at 19:03

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answered Jul 02 '20 at 17:19

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Great! This is helpful espeically for Minikube users who want to debug and play with cronjobs (like me) :) – ch271828n Oct 08 '20 at 12:43

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 13 '17 at 15:14

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I've created a small cmd utility for convenience to do just that and also suspend and unsuspend cronjobs.

https://github.com/iJanki/kubecron

answered Dec 13 '17 at 15:14

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 12 '17 at 03:34

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If you want to test the job, create a Job config from your Cron Job (ScheduledJob) config and run it manually using the following command:

kubectl create -f ./job.yaml

answered Jan 12 '17 at 03:34

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