How to kubernetes "kubectl apply" does not update existing deployments - kubernetes

Question

I have a .NET-core web application. This is deployed to an Azure Container Registry. I deploy this to my Azure Kubernetes Service using
kubectl apply -f testdeployment.yaml
with the yaml-file below
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: myweb
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: myweb
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: myweb
spec:
containers:
- name: myweb
image: mycontainerregistry.azurecr.io/myweb:latest
ports:
- containerPort: 80
imagePullSecrets:
- name: my-registry-key
This works splendid, but when I change some code, push new code to container and run the
kubectl apply -f testdeployment
again, the AKS/website does not get updated, until I remove the deployment with
kubectl remove deployment myweb
What should I do to make it overwrite whatever is deployed? I would like to add something in my yaml-file. (Im trying to use this for continuous delivery in Azure DevOps).

Answer 1

I believe what you are looking for is imagePullPolicy. The default is ifNotPresent which means that the latest version will not be pulled.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/containers/images/
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: myweb
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: myweb
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: myweb
spec:
containers:
- name: myweb
image: mycontainerregistry.azurecr.io/myweb
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- containerPort: 80
imagePullSecrets:
- name: my-registry-key
To ensure that the pod is recreated, rather run:
kubectl delete -f testdeployment && kubectl apply -f testdeployment

Answer 2

kubectl does not see any changes in your deployment yaml file, so it will not make any changes. That's one of the problems using the latest tag.
Tag your image to some incremental version or build number and replace latest with that tag in your CI pipeline (for example with envsubst or similar). This way kubectl knows the image has changed. And you also know what version of the image is running. The latest tag could be any image version.
Simplified example for Azure DevOps:
# <snippet>
image: mycontainerregistry.azurecr.io/myweb:${TAG}
# </snippet>
Pipeline YAML:
stages:
- stage: Build
jobs:
- job: Build
variables:
- name: TAG
value: $(Build.BuildId)
steps:
- script: |
envsubst '${TAG}' < deployment-template.yaml > deployment.yaml
displayName: Replace Environment Variables
Alternatively you could also use another tool like Replace Tokens (different syntax: #{TAG}#).

Answer 3

First delete the deployment config file by running below command on the relative path of the deployment file.
kubectl delete -f .\deployment-file-name.yaml
earlier I used to get
deployment.apps/deployment-file-name unchanged
meaning the deployment file remains cached.
It happens while you're fixing some errors / typos on the deployment YAML & the config got cached once the error got cleared.
Only a kubectl delete -f .\deployment-file-name.yaml could remove the cache.
Later you can do the deployment by
kubectl apply -f .\deployment-file-name.yaml
Sample yaml file as follows :
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: deployment-file-name
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: myservicename
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: platformservice
spec:
containers:
- name: platformservice
image: /platformservice:latest