<p>I have a job with <code>restartPolicy: &quot;Never&quot;</code> which ends with &quot;Error&quot;</p>
<p>With <code>Status : Error</code> this job should not restart.</p>
<p>However, a new pod is created again and again each time the previous job fails :</p>
<pre><code>$ kubectl get pods
kafka-pvbqk          0/1     Error              0          2m19s
kafka-ttt95          0/1     Error              0          109s
kafka-7fqgl          0/1     Error              0          69s
kafka-rrmlk          0/1     PodInitializing    0          2s
</code></pre>
<p>I know first thing should be to fix the error but I also want to understand why the pod restarts and how to avoid that ?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>

<p>That is correct behavior and not a bug. The restart policy you're pointing to is about Pod, not a job itself.</p>
<p>To fail a Job after some amount of retries set <code>.spec.backoffLimit</code> to specify the number of retries before considering a Job as failed.</p>
<p>The back-off limit is set by default to 6. Failed Pods associated with the Job are recreated by the Job controller with an exponential back-off delay (10s, 20s, 40s ...) capped at six minutes. The back-off count is reset when a Job's Pod is deleted or successful without any other Pods for the Job failing around that time.</p>
