Deployment is the best primitive to manage and deploy our software in Kubernetes after version 1.2. It supports gracefully deploying, rolling updating, and rolling back pods and ReplicaSets. We define our desired update of the software by deployment declaratively, and then deployment will do it for us progressively.
Before deployment, ReplicationController and kubectl rolling-update were the major way to implement rolling-update for the software, which is more imperative and slower. Deployment now becomes the major high-level object to manage our application.
Let's have a glimpse of how it works. In this section, we'll get a taste of how deployment is created, how to perform rolling-update and rollback. Chapter 7, Continuous Delivery ...
