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Creating your first deployment on a Kubernetes

Cluster
On this page

1. Pre-requisites
2. What we will do
3. Create a Kubernetes Deployment for Nginx
4. Conclusion
In this article, we will see how to create your first deployment on a Kubernetes
Cluster. As an example, we will create a deployment for Nginx.
Once we have a running Kubernetes cluster, we can deploy our containerized
applications on top of it. We can create a Kubernetes Deployment configuration to
achieve this.
A Deployment provides declarative updates for Pods and ReplicaSets. We describe
a desired state in the Deployment and the Deployment Controller changes the actual
state to the desired state at a controlled rate.
We can create and manage a Deployment by using the "kubectl" Kubernetes
command line interface. Kubectl uses the Kubernetes API to interact with the cluster.
There are three stages in a deployment lifecycle:
1. Progressing: Kubernetes marks a Deployment as progressing when the
Deployment creates a new ReplicaSet, the Deployment is scaling up its newest
ReplicaSet or scaling down its older ReplicaSet or new Pods become ready or
available
2. Complete: Kubernetes marks a Deployment as complete when all of the replicas
associated with the Deployment have been updated, are available, and no old
replicas for the Deployment are running.
3. Failed: This can occur due to insufficient quota, readiness probe failures, image
pull errors or insufficient permissions.
Pre-requisites
1. AWS Account (Create one if you don’t have one)
2. A Kubernetes Cluster
Note: You can use VMs too to create a cluster if you do not want to try
on AWS EC2 Instances.
What we will do
1. Create a Kubernetes Deployment for Nginx.
Create a Kubernetes Deployment for Nginx
To create our first deployment let's just create a new directory to create our
Object/Deployment File. Use the following command to create a new directory in your
system

mkdir my-first-deployment
cd my-first-deployment/

Before we proceed, verify the status of the cluster.


To check the Nodes available in the cluster and to check the version of the " kubectl"
use the following commands.
sudo kubectl version
sudo kubectl get nodes

Once you have Nodes available in your cluster you are ready to create your
deployment.
Create a file "my-first-deployment.yml" with the following block of code

vim my-first-deployment.yml

---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: nginx-deployment
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
replicas: 2
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx:1.7.9
ports:
- containerPort: 80

Here,
 apiVersion: APIVersion defines the versioned schema of this representation of an
object.
 kind: The kind of object you want to create like Deployment, Service, Configmap,
and more.
 name: The name must be unique within a namespace.
 labels: Map of string keys and values that can be used to organize and categorize
objects
 spec: Specification of the desired behavior of the Deployment.
 replicas: Number of desired pods.
 selector: Label selector for pods. Existing ReplicaSets whose pods are selected by
this will be the ones affected by this deployment. It must match the pod
template’s labels.
Now you are ready to create your deployment using the following commands.

sudo kubectl apply -f my-first-deployment.yml


sudo kubectl get deployments

In the above screenshot, you can see that the deployment has been created with two
pods that are available to use.Advertisement
You can get the details of the pods using the following command.

sudo kubectl get pods

If you want to know more about the deployment you can use this "kubectl
describe" command to get the complete details of the deployment.

sudo kubectl get deployments


sudo kubectl describe deployments nginx-deployment

If you no more require the deployment you can delete it using "kubectl delete
command".

sudo kubectl get deployments


sudo kubectl delete deployments nginx-deployment
sudo kubectl get deployments

In the above screenshot, you can see that the deployment is no more available after it
is deleted.
Once you delete the deployment the pods too get deleted.
You can check for the availability of the pods using the following command.

sudo kubectl get pods

In the above screenshot, you can see that the pods have been deleted after deleting
the deployment and are not available.
Conclusion
In this article, we saw the steps to create your first Nginx Deployment on Kubernetes.
We also saw how the details regarding the deployment can be extracted. Along with
this, we explored the commands to delete the deployment.

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