How the pod can reflect the application exit code of K8S Job - kubernetes

Question

I'm running a K8S job, with the following flags:
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
name: my-EP
spec:
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: EP
spec:
restartPolicy: "Never"
containers:
- name: EP
image: myImage
The Job starts, runs my script that runs some application that sends me an email and then terminates. The application returns the exit code to the bash script.
when I run the command:
kubectl get pods, I get the following:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
my-EP-94rh8 0/1 Completed 0 2m2s
Sometimes there are issues, and the network not connected or no license available.
I would like that to be visible to the pod user.
My question is, can I propagate the script exit code to be seen when I run the above get pods command?
I.E instead of the "Completed" status, I would like to see my application exit code - 0, 1, 2, 3....
or maybe there is a way to see it in the Pods Statuses, in the describe command?
currently I see:
Pods Statuses: 0 Running / 1 Succeeded / 0 Failed
Is this possible?

Answer 1

The a non-zero exit code on k8s jobs will fall into the Failed pod status. There really isn't a way for you to have the exit code shown with kubectl get pods but you could output the pod status with -ojson and then pipe it into jq looking for the exit code. Something like the following from this post might work
kubectl get pod pod_name -c container_name-n namespace -ojson | jq .status.containerStatuses[].state.terminated.exitCode
or this, with the items[] in the json
kubectl get pods -ojson | jq .items[].status.containerStatuses[].state.terminated.exitCode
Alternatively, as u/blaimi mentioned, you can do it without jq, like this:
kubectl get pod pod_name -o jsonpath --template='{.status.containerStatuses[*].state.terminated.exitCode}