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The Kubernetes Book - Second Edition
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The Kubernetes Book - Second Edition

by Nigel Poulton, Pushkar Joglekar
July 2024
Beginner to intermediate
330 pages
6h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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6: Kubernetes Deployments

This chapter shows you how to use Deployments to add cloud-native features such as self-healing, scaling, rolling updates, and versioned rollbacks to stateless apps on Kubernetes.

The chapter is divided as follows:

  • Deployment theory
  • Create a Deployment
  • Manually scale an app
  • Perform a rollout
  • Perform a rollback

Deployment theory

Deployments are the most popular way of running stateless apps on Kubernetes. They add self-healing, scaling, rollouts, and rollbacks.

Consider a quick example.

Assume you have a requirement for a web app that needs to be resilient, scale on demand, and be frequently updated. You write the app, containerize it, and define it in a Pod YAML so it can run on Kubernetes. You then wrap the Pod ...

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ISBN: 9781835880302