<p>Reading the <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/job/#job-patterns" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kubernetes official docs</a> on Job parallel execution (e.g. one job, multiple pods with <code>parallelism</code> set to &gt; 1), under the section, &quot;<a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/job/#parallel-jobs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Parallel execution for Jobs / Parallel Jobs with a fixed completion count</a>,&quot; the documentation states:</p>
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<p><strong>not implemented yet:</strong> Each Pod is passed a different index in the range 1 to .spec.completions.</p>
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<p>This statement suggests that a future version of Kubernetes will be able to pass a unique counter to each pod in a job with <code>parallelism</code> &gt; 1.</p>
<p>Since this is in the official documentation as of (17 Mar 2021) I would like to know if there is an official timeline or expected release version for this feature. It would alleviate a lot of pain for me.</p>

David Parks
<p>Yes, this feature will be released as alpha in 1.21 which is due in a few weeks. <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98812" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98812</a> has details and links to the KEP.</p>
