Delete multiple jobs in Kubernetes

In this blog, we will cover how to bulk delete multiple jobs in Kubernetes. A Kubernetes Job creates one or more Pods and when the specified number of successful runs are complete, the task is considered as complete. To delete a Job, we will need to clean up the Pods it creates. 

Bulk Delete  Jobs

To delete failed or unsuccessful jobs, you can run this command:

kubectl delete jobs --field-selector status.successful=0 -A

To delete passed or successful jobs, you can run this command:

kubectl delete jobs --field-selector status.successful=1 -A

Tip:  You can narrow it down to a particular namespace by removing all namespaces (-A) parameter and explictly specifying the namespace using -n, for example:

To delete failed or unsuccessful jobs in namespace ‘production’, you can run this command:

kubectl delete jobs --field-selector status.successful=0 -n production

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