<p>I wanted to stop my job for sometime. What would be the recommended approach for it?</p>
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<li><p>If  I delete job then it will delete all pods associated to the job.yaml file .</p>
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<li><p>Scalling down pods to zero using deployment.</p>
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<p>Please let me know is there any way to get adverse results if choose option1 over option2.</p>

Prabhakar
<p>If the <code>job</code> is spawned by a <code>cronjob</code>, then you can just delete the <code>job</code> resource and <code>suspend</code> the <code>cronjob</code> (see <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/job/automated-tasks-with-cron-jobs/#suspend" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>. Also see <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs/#cron-job-limitations" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> regarding &quot;missed jobs&quot; which will happen while the <code>cronjob</code> is suspended).</p>
<p>Then when you are ready to resume, just <code>unsuspend</code> the <code>cronjob</code>, and the next triggered cycle will re-create the <code>job</code> resource</p>
<p>If the job is created outright (i.e. not from a <code>cronjob</code>), then you can <a href="https://kubernetes.io/blog/2021/04/12/introducing-suspended-jobs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">suspend the job itself</a> if you are on Kubernetes 1.21 or later. If you aren't, then the easiest way (I think), is to dump the job yaml to disk, delete the job itself from the cluster, then recreate it when you're ready to resume.</p>
<p>If you are running the job as a <code>deployment</code> (your point #2), and not as a <code>job</code> resource then, yes, simply scaling down to zero then scaling back up would work.</p>
