replicas

Change the number of replicas for a resource.

Given this kubernetes Deployment fragment:

kind: Deployment metadata:  name: deployment-name spec:  replicas: 3 

one can change the number of replicas to 5 by adding the following to your kustomization:

apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Kustomization  replicas: - name: deployment-name  count: 5 

This field accepts a list, so many resources can be modified at the same time.

As this declaration does not take in a kind: nor a group: it will match any group and kind that has a matching name and that is one of:

  • Deployment
  • ReplicationController
  • ReplicaSet
  • StatefulSet

For more complex use cases, revert to using a patch.

Example

Input File

# deployment.yaml apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata:  name: the-deployment spec:  replicas: 5  template:  containers:  - name: the-container  image: registry/container:latest 
# kustomization.yaml apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Kustomization  replicas: - name: the-deployment  count: 10  resources: - deployment.yaml 

Output

# deployment.yaml apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata:  name: the-deployment spec:  replicas: 10  template:  containers:  - name: the-container  image: registry/container:latest