# Job with Pod-to-Pod Communication — Example

> Below is a working example of a Job with pod-to-pod communication via pod hostnames enabled.

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Below is a working example of a Job with pod-to-pod communication via pod hostnames enabled. The Job is completed only after all pods successfully ping each other using hostnames.

In the Bash script executed on each pod in the example below, the pod hostnames can be prefixed by the namespace as well if the pod needs to be reached from outside the namespace.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: headless-svc
spec:
  clusterIP: None # clusterIP must be None to create a headless service
  selector:
    job-name: example-job # must match Job name
---
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
  name: example-job
spec:
  completions: 3
  parallelism: 3
  completionMode: Indexed
  template:
    spec:
      subdomain: headless-svc # has to match Service name
      restartPolicy: Never
      containers:
      - name: example-workload
        image: bash:latest
        command:
        - bash
        - -c
        - |
          for i in 0 1 2
          do
            gotStatus="-1"
            wantStatus="0"
            while [ $gotStatus -ne $wantStatus ]
            do
              ping -c 1 example-job-${i}.headless-svc &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1
              gotStatus=$?
              if [ $gotStatus -ne $wantStatus ]; then
                echo "F
```

After applying the example above, reach each other over the network using: .. You should see output similar to the following

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl logs example-job-0-qws42
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
Failed to ping pod example-job-0.headless-svc, retrying in 1 second...
Successfully pinged pod: example-job-0.headless-svc
Successfully pinged pod: example-job-1.headless-svc
Successfully pinged pod: example-job-2.headless-svc
```

Keep in mind that the . name format used in this example would not work with DNS policy set to None or Default. Refer to Pod's DNS Policy.

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