Tag: Release process

Install deployment

Install nginx 1.12.2 with 2 pods

If you need to have 2 pods from the start then it could be done in three easy steps:

• Create deployment template with nginx version 1.12.2
• Edit nginx.yaml to update replicas count.
• Apply deployment template to Kubernetes cluster

# step 1
kubectl create  deployment nginx --save-config=true --image=nginx:1.12.2 --dry-run=client -o yaml > nginx.yaml
# step 2
edit nginx.yaml
# step 3
kubectl apply --record=true -f nginx.yaml

Notice use of --record=true to save the state of what caused the deployment change

Auto-scaling deployment

Deployments can be scaled manually or automatically. Let’s see how it could be done in few simple commands.

Scaling manually up to 4 pods

kubectl scale deployment nginx --replicas=4 --record=true

Scaling manually down to 2 pods

kubectl scale deployment nginx --replicas=2 --record=true

Automatically scale up and down

Automatically scale up to 4 pods and down to 2 pods based on cpu usage

kubectl autoscale deployment nginx --min=2 --max 4

You can adjust when to scale up/down using --cpu-percent(e.g. --cpu-percent=80) flag

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