container-restart.yaml

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52422300/how-to-schedule-pods-restart
---
# Service account the client will use to reset the deployment,
# by default the pods running inside the cluster can do no such things.
kind: ServiceAccount
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: deployment-restart
  namespace: <namespace>
---
# allow getting status and patching only the one deployment you want
# to restart
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
  name: deployment-restart
  namespace: <namespace>
rules:
  - apiGroups: ["apps", "extensions"]
    resources: ["deployments"]
    resourceNames: ["<deployment-name>"]
    verbs: ["get", "patch", "list", "watch"] # "list" and "watch" are only needed
                                             # if you want to use `rollout status`
---
# bind the role to the service account
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
  name: deployment-restart
  namespace: <namespace>
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: Role
  name: deployment-restart
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: deployment-restart
    namespace: <namespace>
---
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: deployment-restart
  namespace: <namespace>
spec:
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  schedule: '0 22 */2 * *' # cron spec of time, here, 22 o'clock
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      backoffLimit: 2 # this has very low chance of failing, as all this does
                      # is prompt kubernetes to schedule new replica set for
                      # the deployment
      activeDeadlineSeconds: 600 # timeout, makes most sense with 
                                 # "waiting for rollout" variant specified below
      template:
        spec:
          serviceAccountName: deployment-restart # name of the service
                                                 # account configured above
          restartPolicy: Never
          containers:
            - name: kubectl
              image: bitnami/kubectl # probably any kubectl image will do,
                                     # optionaly specify version, but this
                                     # should not be necessary, as long the
                                     # version of kubectl is new enough to
                                     # have `rollout restart`
              command:
                - 'kubectl'
                - 'rollout'
                - 'restart'
                - 'deployment/<deployment-name>'