A Kubernetes object that starts a job on a cron schedule.

A CronJob turns a schedule into a pod

A CronJob is a Job template plus a cron expression. Every time the expression matches, the controller creates a new Job, and that Job runs a pod to completion. Nothing stays resident between runs: a batch job inherits the cluster’s retry and scheduling machinery without a daemon kept alive to trigger it. ...

December 17, 2027 · 5 min · XB Field Notes