Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

In this section, we will show you how to manage resources through the RESTful API. Generally, the command line pattern of curl will cover the following ideas:

• The operation: curl without an indicating operation will fire GET by default. To specify your operation, add one with the X flag.
• The body data: Like creating a Kubernetes resource through kubectl, we apply resource configuration with the d flag. The value with symbol @ can attach a file. Additionally, the h flag helps to add request headers; here we need to add content type in the JSON format.
• The URL: There are various paths after the endpoint, based on different functions.

Let's create a deployment using the following JSON configuration file:

$ cat nginx-deployment.json ...