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Why are jobs used instead of Deployments for batch tasks?

Junior Kubernetes
Quick Answer Deployments run processes continuously and restart them on exit รขโ‚ฌโ€ wrong for batch work that should run once and complete. Jobs run a Pod to completion (exit 0) then stop รขโ‚ฌโ€ they don't restart unnecessarily. Jobs track success/failure, support parallelism (run N tasks simultaneously), and have retry logic for failures.

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Jobs ensure tasks run to completion, retrying on failure.
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