Deploy long-running tasks on Kubernetes

Whilst reading this extremly detailed and well written article about how graceful shutdowns work on Kubernetes. It touched on the subject of long running tasks. When we update the deployment inside of Kubernetes, it will start by deleting a pod with the old version of the image, and starts a new pod with the new version. The pod can be attached to a service it might be the case that the pod is removed from the service before the process/pod has finished. Read more