I have a pod running and I have a hard time creating a job.yaml file that successfully does all the things I want it to do. Is there a way for me to shutdown the kubernetes pod without calling kubectl delete jobs? I looked into kubectl stop pods but its been deprecated.
Also, is it bad to just keep a pod running even if there is no computation happening?
The correct way to stop a pod is simply deleting it.
kubectl delete po <pod name> -n <namespace>Please be aware that if the pod was created by a job, it will likely be recreated automatically, so you should update the job spec before actually deleting the pod.
As per the second question, having a Pod that does nothing is not a problem for kubernetes, but of course it's a waste of resources and you should avoid it.