Wait for kubernetes job to complete on either failure/success using command line

kubectl wait --for=condition=<condition name is waiting for a specific condition, so afaik it can not specify multiple conditions at the moment.

My workaround is using oc get --wait, --wait is closed the command if the target resource is updated. I will monitor status section of the job using oc get --wait until status is updated. Update of status section is meaning the Job is complete with some status conditions.

If the job complete successfully, then status.conditions.type is updated immediately as Complete. But if the job is failed then the job pod will be restarted automatically regardless restartPolicy is OnFailure or Never. But we can deem the job is Failed status if not to updated as Complete after first update.

Look the my test evidence as follows.

• Job yaml for testing successful complete

    # vim job.yml
    apiVersion: batch/v1
    kind: Job
    metadata:
      name: pi
    spec:
      parallelism: 1
      completions: 1
      template:
        metadata:
          name: pi
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: pi
            image: perl
            command: ["perl",  "-wle", "exit 0"]
          restartPolicy: Never

• It will show you Complete if it complete the job successfully.

    # oc create -f job.yml &&
      oc get job/pi -o=jsonpath='{.status}' -w &&
      oc get job/pi -o=jsonpath='{.status.conditions[*].type}' | grep -i -E 'failed|complete' || echo "Failed" 

    job.batch/pi created
    map[startTime:2019-03-09T12:30:16Z active:1]Complete

• Job yaml for testing failed complete

    # vim job.yml
    apiVersion: batch/v1
    kind: Job
    metadata:
      name: pi
    spec:
      parallelism: 1
      completions: 1
      template:
        metadata:
          name: pi
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: pi
            image: perl
            command: ["perl",  "-wle", "exit 1"]
          restartPolicy: Never

• It will show you Failed if the first job update is not Complete. Test if after delete the existing job resource.

    # oc delete job pi
    job.batch "pi" deleted

    # oc create -f job.yml &&
      oc get job/pi -o=jsonpath='{.status}' -w &&
      oc get job/pi -o=jsonpath='{.status.conditions[*].type}' | grep -i -E 'failed|complete' || echo "Failed" 

    job.batch/pi created
    map[active:1 startTime:2019-03-09T12:31:05Z]Failed

I hope it help you. :)

The wait -n approach does not work for me as I need it to work both on Linux and Mac.

I improved on the answer provided by Clayton a little, because his script would not work with set -e -E enabled. The following will work even in that case.

while true; do
  if kubectl wait --for=condition=complete --timeout=0 job/name 2>/dev/null; then
    job_result=0
    break
  fi

  if kubectl wait --for=condition=failed --timeout=0 job/name 2>/dev/null; then
    job_result=1
    break
  fi

  sleep 3
done

if [[ $job_result -eq 1 ]]; then
    echo "Job failed!"
    exit 1
fi

echo "Job succeeded"

You might want to add a timeout to avoid the infinite loop, depends on your situation.

You can leverage the behaviour when --timeout=0.

In this scenario, the command line returns immediately with either result code 0 or 1. Here's an example:

retval_complete=1
retval_failed=1
while [[ $retval_complete -ne 0 ]] && [[ $retval_failed -ne 0 ]]; do
  sleep 5
  output=$(kubectl wait --for=condition=failed job/job-name --timeout=0 2>&1)
  retval_failed=$?
  output=$(kubectl wait --for=condition=complete job/job-name --timeout=0 2>&1)
  retval_complete=$?
done

if [ $retval_failed -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Job failed. Please check logs."
    exit 1
fi

So when either condition=failed or condition=complete is true, execution will exit the while loop (retval_complete or retval_failed will be 0).

Next, you only need to check and act on the condition you want. In my case, I want to fail fast and stop execution when the job fails.

Run the first wait condition as a subprocess and capture its PID. If the condition is met, this process will exit with an exit code of 0.

kubectl wait --for=condition=complete job/myjob &
completion_pid=$!

Do the same for the failure wait condition. The trick here is to add && exit 1 so that the subprocess returns a non-zero exit code when the job fails.

kubectl wait --for=condition=failed job/myjob && exit 1 &
failure_pid=$! 

Then use the Bash builtin wait -n $PID1 $PID2 to wait for one of the conditions to succeed. The command will capture the exit code of the first process to exit:

wait -n $completion_pid $failure_pid

Finally, you can check the actual exit code of wait -n to see whether the job failed or not:

exit_code=$?

if (( $exit_code == 0 )); then
  echo "Job completed"
else
  echo "Job failed with exit code ${exit_code}, exiting..."
fi

exit $exit_code

Complete example:

# wait for completion as background process - capture PID
kubectl wait --for=condition=complete job/myjob &
completion_pid=$!

# wait for failure as background process - capture PID
kubectl wait --for=condition=failed job/myjob && exit 1 &
failure_pid=$! 

# capture exit code of the first subprocess to exit
wait -n $completion_pid $failure_pid

# store exit code in variable
exit_code=$?

if (( $exit_code == 0 )); then
  echo "Job completed"
else
  echo "Job failed with exit code ${exit_code}, exiting..."
fi

exit $exit_code