So in order to update the images running on a pod, I have to modify the deployment config (yaml file), and run something like kubectl apply -f deploy.yaml.
This means, if I'm not editing the yaml file manually I'll have to use some template / search and replace functionality. Which isn't really ideal.
Are there any better approaches?
It seems there is a kubectl rolling-update command, but I'm not sure if this works for 'deployments'.
For example running the following: kubectl rolling-update wordpress --image=eu.gcr.io/abcxyz/wordpress:deploy-1502443760
Produces an error of:
error: couldn't find a replication controller with source id == default/wordpressI am using this for changing images in Deployments:
kubectl set image deployment/nginx-deployment nginx=nginx:1.9.1If you view the yaml files as source of truth then use a tag like stable in the yaml and only issue kubectl set image commands when the tag is moved (use the sha256 image id to actually trigger a rollout; the image names are matched like a string so updating from :stable to :stable is a noop even if the tag now points to a different image).
See updating a deployment for more details.
The above requires the deployment replica count to be set more then 1, which is explained here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45649024/1663462.