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Starting a new build

If an application's source code was updated, you can trigger the rebuild process by running the oc start-build command. The build itself is managed by the build configuration.

First, we need to gather information on all available build configurations:

$ oc get bcNAME    TYPE   FROM       LATESTphpinfo Source Git@master 1

As you can see, we only have one build, phpinfo, and it was deployed only once; hence, the number 1.

Let's start a new build, as follows:

$ oc start-build phpinfobuild "phpinfo-2" started$ oc get podNAME             READY  STATUS    RESTARTS AGEphpinfo-1-build  0/1    Completed 0        2hphpinfo-1-h9xt5  1/1    Running   0        2hphpinfo-2-build  0/1    Init:0/2  0        3s

OpenShift started a new build, versioned as 2, which is present in the names of the pods ...