In a serverless Kubernetes (ASK) cluster, you can create pods as needed. The system stops billing after a pod is stopped and you do not need to reserve computing resources to handle jobs. This solves the issues of insufficient computing resources and saves you the need to expand the cluster. In addition, you can reduce the computing cost by using preemptible instances. This topic describes how to use ASK to create jobs to meet your business requirements.

Procedure

  1. Use the kubectl client to create the job.yaml file and copy the following content into the file:
    apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: pi
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: pi
        image: perl
        command: ["perl",  "-Mbignum=bpi", "-wle", "print bpi(2000)"]
        resources:
          requests:
            cpu: 16
            memory: 32Gi
      restartPolicy: Never
  backoffLimit: 4
  2. Run the following command to deploy a job:
    kubectl apply -f job.yaml
  3. Run the following commands to check the state of the pod.

    Run the following command to check the state of the pod:

    kubectl get pod
    NAME       READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
pi-4f7w5   0/1     Completed   0          80s

    Run the following command to view detailed information about the state of the pod:

    kubectl describe pod
    Name:               pi-4f7w5
Namespace:          default
Priority:           0
PriorityClassName:  <none>
Node:               virtual-kubelet-cn-hongkong-b/10.10.66.169
...
Events:
  Type    Reason                 Age   From          Message
  ----    ------                 ----  ----          -------
  Normal  SuccessfulMountVolume  114s  kubelet, eci  MountVolume.SetUp succeeded for volume "default-token-8k4jz"
  Normal  Pulling                113s  kubelet, eci  pulling image "perl"
  Normal  Pulled                 64s   kubelet, eci  Successfully pulled image "perl"
  Normal  Created                64s   kubelet, eci  Created container
  Normal  Started                64s   kubelet, eci  Started container
  4. Optional:To use a preemptible instance, add a preemptible instance annotation to the pod.
    For more information about how to a preemptible instance annotation, see Use preemptible instances. 
    apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: pi
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        k8s.aliyun.com/eci-spot-strategy: SpotAsPriceGo
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: pi
        image: perl
        command: ["perl",  "-Mbignum=bpi", "-wle", "print bpi(2000)"]
        resources:
          requests:
            cpu: 16
            memory: 32Gi
      restartPolicy: Never
  backoffLimit: 4