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When Jobs Fail

Understand how to manage Kubernetes job failures effectively by exploring the retry mechanisms including restart policies, the backoffLimit property for retry limits, and setting activeDeadlineSeconds to define time constraints on job execution.

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Using the backoffLimit property

Things can go wrong, and a pod can fail. That could be because of an application error or because of a node failure while the pod is running.

The goal of a Job is to ensure that a pod (or the number we defined in the completions property) finishes ...