Running Claude Code as a Kubernetes Job

Part 1 of a series on using Claude Code as a production runtime. Originally published on everyrow.io . We run Claude Code in Kubernetes for a set of long-running marketing CronJobs. One scans communities like subreddits and support forums, another searches for news and generates relevant content, and the last one optimizes SEO for everyrow.io , our data processing product. This originally sounded like a terrible idea, but after running it for a few months, we think it's a genuinely valid engineering approach - for the right kind of work. Everything is a tradeoff, and this series is a short journey through the practical engineering, actual use cases, and some beautiful metaphysics. Our infrastructure for everyrow.io and futuresearch.ai runs on Google Kubernetes Engine, so that's where we'll start - here's what you need to make Claude Code work as a K8s CronJob, gotchas included. Project Structure For reasons explained in the next posts, we need both Python and Node. Claude is excellent