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Certified Kubernetes Application Developer CKAD (Kubernetes v1.35 curriculum) · Domain 1: Application Design and Build

CronJobs: schedule syntax, concurrencyPolicy, history limits, running a job manually from a CronJob

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

A CronJob creates a Job on a repeating schedule. It lives in the batch/v1 API group, and its spec wraps a jobTemplate, which in turn wraps the familiar Pod template. So a CronJob manifest has three nested levels: CronJob spec, Job spec, Pod spec.

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