Kubernetes 101 : Changing a Pod's label on the fly
A replicaSet is a kubernetes object which ensures that a specified number of pods is running at all times.
Here is the Yaml configuration file of the replicaSet that spawns the "debian_pod" pods:
Displaying the pods:
We display the pods that the replicaSet "replica_1" spawns using the below command:
Changing the label of a pod:
We edit the Yaml file of our pod "replica_1-3f0d1" and we change its label from "debian_pod" to "non_debian_pod" using the below command:
Remark:
The edit command opens the "Vi" editor.
We could change the default editor using the environmental variable "KUBE_EDITOR"
We then display the pods that have the label "role" :
The ReplicaSet still has three replicas with the "debian_pod" label even after changing the label of one of the replicas.
The replicaSet spwaned a new pod "replica_1-3c9d2" to replace the one with the changed label "replica_1-3f0d1" to keep the number of replicas which is "3".
Deleting the replicaSet:
When we delete the replicaSet "replica_1", all the pods attached to it will be deleted automatically:
This deletes the replicaset and all the pods attached to it, except the one with the changed label "replica_1-3f0d1".
We can check it using the below command:
We can delete the pod with the changed label "non_debian_pod" using the below command:
Remark:
We could use "pods" or "po" in the command line interchangeably.
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