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Show HN: Run a Kubernetes Job and get the logs when it's done

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8 pointsalexellisuk4 comments

> Getting the logs from a job is a pain, and needs multiple get/describe/logs commands

Last I checked, you could just do

  kubectl logs job/<job-name>

I wanted to share a new OSS tool I've written because I felt like the user experience for running a job and getting the output from the Pod was too cryptic.

If you can see yourself using it, let me know. Try it out.

This is how it's being used in OpenFaaS to help support customers: https://github.com/openfaas/config-checker

A similar and more generic tool from Replicated is: https://github.com/replicatedhq/troubleshoot

And if you wanted to see how easy it is to play around with the K8s API with Go, hopefully this example will give you a bit more confidence to try some hacking.

One-shot jobs are one of the reasons why I moved from Kubernetes to Nomad[0]. It feels overengineering absurdity that there is no more straightforward way to do it.

Nowadays, I'm back to Docker Swarm and loving it. It seems you did something similar before for Docker Swarm [1] btw, nice ;-)

[0] https://www.nomadproject.io

[1] https://blog.alexellis.io/containers-on-swarm/

Docker swarm has Job support nowadays, would this help?

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