<p>I'm new to nextflow. We would like to build our workflow using nextflow and have nextflow deploy the workflow to a large mulit-institution Kubernetes cluster that we use.</p>
<p>In this cluster we don't have admin permission, we have a namespace we work in. Also, pods in our cluster have limited resources, but jobs have unlimited resources.</p>
<p>In looking at <a href="https://www.nextflow.io/docs/latest/kubernetes.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the documentation</a> for nextflow + kubernetes and it says that the workflow runs under a Kubernetes pod, which raises red flags for me because of the limitation on pods in our cluster.</p>
<p>Is there a way to execute nextflow workflows as a kubernetes jobs instead of a pod? What are my options in this area?</p>

David Parks
<p>Based on a conversation on <a href="https://gitter.im/nextflow-io/nextflow" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gitter.im/nextflow-io/nextflow</a>, Nextflow cannot run a Job, it only supports spawning Pods. One pod is spawned for workflow control, and that Pod spawns pods for the individual tasks.</p>
