This article is meant for total newbies (such as myself a month ago) in Kubernetes. I will try to explain Kubernetes and some of its basic concepts in the simplest terms possible. However, we assume that you already know some basics about Docker containers. If you don’t, I recommend checking out our Docker basics article.
In moving to self-hosting STRAP (sort of–where we host the Strapper
application on platform) we have run into an issue where we rely on a file in
local storage which we can’t furnish any other way. We don’t want to at this
time make a change to the deployment manifest, but we may need to effect the
change multiple times, so we want something reusable: enter kubectl patch.