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Trigger Kubernetes Cron Job Manually

Why

Sometimes when you have a Job that is on a weekly schedule, you don't want to wait a week to test it

How

kubectl create job --from=cronjob/<name> <give it a name>

Example

Get the Job name first

kubectl get cronjobs.batch

NAME                SCHEDULE    SUSPEND   ACTIVE   LAST SCHEDULE   AGE
bread-roller   0 0 * * *   False     0        11h             15d

Create the job

We are going to call this one yeet

kubectl create job --from=cronjob/bread-roller yeet

View the container

k get pods
NAME                          READY   STATUS            RESTARTS   AGE
bread-7775f66dbc-qppxt        0/1     PodInitializing   0          5s
yeet-8hqrc                    0/1     Completed         0          6s
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