---
type: docs
title: "Running Dapr with a Kubernetes Job"
linkTitle: "Kubernetes Jobs"
weight: 70000
description: "Use Dapr API in a Kubernetes Job context"
type: docs
---

# Kubernetes Job

The Dapr sidecar is designed to be a long running process, in the context of a [Kubernetes Job](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/job/) this behaviour can block your job completion.
To address this issue the Dapr sidecar has an endpoint to `Shutdown` the sidecar.

When running a basic [Kubernetes Job](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/job/) you will need to call the `/shutdown` endpoint for the sidecar to gracefully stop and the job will be considered `Completed`.

When a job is finished without calling `Shutdown`, your job will be in a `NotReady` state with only the `daprd` container running endlessly.

Stopping the dapr sidecar will cause its readiness and liveness probes to fail in your container because the dapr sidecar was shutdown.
To prevent Kubernetes from trying to restart your job, set your job's `restartPolicy` to `Never`.

Be sure to use the *POST* HTTP verb when calling the shutdown HTTP API.

```yaml
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: job-with-shutdown
spec:
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        dapr.io/enabled: "true"
        dapr.io/app-id: "with-shutdown"
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: job
        image: alpine
        command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "apk --no-cache add curl && sleep 20 && curl -X POST localhost:3500/v1.0/shutdown"]
      restartPolicy: Never
```

You can also call the `Shutdown` from any of the Dapr SDKs

```go
package main

import (
	"context"
	"log"
	"os"

	dapr "github.com/dapr/go-sdk/client"
)

func main() {
  client, err := dapr.NewClient()
  if err != nil {
    log.Panic(err)
  }
  defer client.Close()
  defer client.Shutdown()
  // Job
}
```