how to restart only ingress pods through cron jobs

Hi @37821879, to create cronjob to restart nginx deployment every day at midnight (00:00) using the schedule field. you can deploy this YAML If the answer has been helpful, we appreciate hearing from you and would love to help others who may have the same question. Accepting answers helps increase visibility of this question for other members of the Microsoft Q&A community. Thank you for helping to improve Microsoft Q&A!

apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: restart-deployment
  namespace: nginx-basic
spec:
  successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 1
  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 2
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  schedule: "0 0 * * *"
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      backoffLimit: 2 
      activeDeadlineSeconds: 600 
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: Never
          containers:
            - name: kubectl
              image: kubectl 
              command:
                - 'kubectl'
                - 'rollout'
                - 'restart'
                - 'deployment/nginx'

@37821879
I see you already have the answer for the command to run here. You simply can add a cron file or entry to crontab with the command that was provided.

# restart at 1:00 am
0 1 * * * root /path/to/kubectl --kubeconfig=/path/to/kubeconfig rollout restart deployment/<deployment-name> -n namespace

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