Submitting Jobs to Kubernetes
In general, the application is designed to be long-lived in the same way as the daemon process. A typical long-lived application opens the network port and keeps it running. It is required to keep running the application. If it fails, you will need to restart to recover the state. Therefore, using Kubernetes deployment is the best option for the long-lived application.
On the other hand, some applications are designed to be short-lived, such as a command script. It is expected to exit the application even if it is successful in order to finish the tasks. Therefore, a Kubernetes deployment is not the right choice, because a deployment tries to keep the process running.
No worries; Kubernetes also supports short-lived ...
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