Kubernetes in Action

Chapter 9. Deployments: updating applications declaratively

This chapter covers

• Replacing pods with newer versions
• Updating managed pods
• Updating pods declaratively using Deployment resources
• Performing rolling updates
• Automatically blocking rollouts of bad versions
• Controlling the rate of the rollout
• Reverting pods to a previous version

You now know how to package your app components into containers, group them into pods, provide them with temporary or permanent storage, pass both secret and non-secret config data to them, and allow pods to find and talk to each other. You know how to run a full-fledged system composed of independently running smaller components—microservices, if you will. Is there anything else?

Eventually, you’re going ...