Jobs, CronJobs and Workers: Running an EF Core Migration Bundle as a Job
Run EF Core migrations once, in a versioned Job at the start of the deploy, not in every replica's init container; in our test the EF Core 9+ migration lock did not stop concurrent init containers from racing. With real output we package the bundle in a chiseled image, tune backoffLimit and TTL, hit Job immutability, write a pipeline script that catches Complete/Failed, and set up a CronJob with timeZone.
8 Nov 2026
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