Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

The RESTful API allows CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations, which are the same concepts behind every modern web application. For more details, please refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete.

According to the CRUD structure, the Kubernetes RESTful API has the following basic method:

Operation	HTTP Method	Example
Create	POST	POST /api/v1/namespaces/default/pods
Read	GET	GET /api/v1/componentstatuses
Update	PUT	PUT /apis/apps/v1/namespaces/default/deployments/my-nginx
Delete	DELETE	DELETE /api/v1/namespaces/default/services/nginx-service

As we mentioned in the recipe Working with configuration files in Chapter 3, Playing with Containers ...