Kubernetes: Recreating Pods
Sometimes it’s practical to re-create a pod because it needs to re-load configuration or restart. Here are some tricks to deleting and re-creating pods.
Delete All Pods By Label
To get the labels of a pod run this command on the appropriate namespace.
kubectl get pods -o wide
kubectl delete pods -l app=kubernetes-tutorial -n mrjamiebowman
Delete Each Pod Individually
The key thing here is to leave one running and delete the others.
kubectl delete pod/podname -n mrjamiebowman
Scale to 0…3
kubectl scale deployment kubernetes-tutorial -n mrjamiebowman --replicas=0
then scale back up…
kubectl scale deployment kubernetes-tutorial -n mrjamiebowman --replicas=3
Rolling Restart (Production)
A more production-friendly way of doing this would be to configure the Deployment to handle a rolling restart. That is for another tutorial in another day. I just want people to be aware of this.
kubectl rollout restart deployment kubernetes-tutorial
