Lab7 (Spring Boot/K8S): Spring Batch on Kubernetes — Jobs and CronJobs

Welcome back to our k8s series. In this story, we’ll learn how Kubernetes Jobs and CronJobs work in practice.

· Understanding Jobs in Kubernetes
∘ Kubernetes Job Types
∘ Defining a Job resource
· CronJob in Kubernetes
∘ What are Kubernetes CronJobs
∘ Writing a CronJob spec
∘ How to Create CronJob in Kubernetes
· Spring Batch on Kubernetes
∘ Let’s Code
∘ Testing
· Conclusion
· References

This series of stories shows how to use Kubernetes in the Spring ecosystem. We work with a Spring Boot API and Minikube to have a lightweight and fast development environment similar to production.

• Lab1 (Spring Boot/K8S): Deploy Spring Boot application on Kubernetes
• Lab2 (Spring Boot/K8S): Kubernetes health probes with Spring Boot
• Lab3 (Spring Boot/K8S): Mastering ConfigMaps in Kubernetes
• Lab4 (Spring Boot/K8S): Using Kubernetes Secrets in Spring Boot
• Lab5 (Spring Boot/K8S): Understanding Kubernetes…