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Advanced Rollout with Kubernetes Deployments

The basic features of Kubernetes can be used to implement advanced Deployment strategies such as blue/green Deployments. In this lab, you will have the opportunity to try your hand at implementing these strategies in Kubernetes.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 30m
Published
Clock icon Feb 25, 2022

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  1. Challenge

    Perform a Rolling Update

    There is a Deployment in the hive Namespace called web-frontend.

    Update the image used in the Deployment's Pod to nginx:1.16.1.

  2. Challenge

    Perform a Blue/Green Deployment

    There is a Deployment in the hive Namespace called internal-api-blue.

    A Service called api-svc directs traffic to this Deployment's Pods.

    You can find a YAML manifest for the Deployment at /home/cloud_user/internal-api-blue.yml. Make a copy of this manifest at /home/cloud_user/internal-api-green.yml. Modify the manifest to create a green Deployment called internal-api-green. For the green Deployment, use the image linuxacademycontent/ckad-nginx:green.

    Update the Service to point only to the green Deployment's Pods.

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