How to Automatically Restart Pods in Kubernetes on a Schedule

Muhammad Usama Khan
3 min readJan 16, 2024

Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration platform, provides a robust environment for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications. In some scenarios, you might want to automatically restart pods at scheduled intervals to ensure the health, performance and response of your applications. In this guide, we’ll explore an easy and efficient way to achieve this using Kubernetes CronJobs.

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Muhammad Usama Khan

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