Batch pipeline, mission 3 of 6

Many hands

intermediate, about 10 minutes, in the Kubernetes Simulator

Start mission

Opens once you pass When a job fails.

The briefing

The shop needs thumbnails for 12 batches of product photos. Each batch takes about 8 seconds on one worker — so one at a time is a minute and a half.

completions is how many successful runs the Job needs; parallelism is how many pods it runs at once. thumbnails.yaml is ready in your directory, set to one at a time.

What you'll do

  • Run the thumbnails Job to 12 completions
  • With at least 4 pods at a time
  • Bonus star: Finish all 12 within 40 seconds

The mission checks the cluster, not your keystrokes: any fix that works, passes.

More Batch pipeline missions

  1. 1. Run it once
  2. 2. When a job fails
  3. 3. Many hands
  4. 4. Every night
  5. 5. Pile-up
  6. 6. The 2am failure
Every Kubernetes Simulator mission

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