Updating live containers
For the benefit of containers, we can easily publish new programs by executing the latest image, and reduce the headache of environment setup. But, what about publishing the program on running containers? Using native Docker commands, we have to stop the running containers prior to booting up new ones with the latest images and the same configurations. There is a simple and efficient zero-downtime method to update your program in the Kubernetes system. It is called rolling-update. We will show this solution to you in this recipe.
Getting ready
Rolling-update works on the units of the replication controller. The effect is to create new pods one by one to replace the old one. The new pods in the target replication controller ...
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