Label
Label documentation:
Labels are key value pairs that describe resources in kubernetes. Labels should be used to identify and describe useful and important attributes for the resources.
Example of some good labels that describe some useful properties about a pod:
environment
:dev
,environment
:prod
version
:v10.2
,version
:v11.0
The reason we want to assign proper labels to our resources (pods especially) is to utilise the various selectors
that are specified in many control resources.
A selector defines a set of labels and values, and tries to select the resources that matches the defined selector.
For example the selector in Deployment
defines its selector as:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: sample-app
Which will match each pod with the label app
:sample-app
.
To view the labels of a resource deployed to the cluster use the extra flag
--show-labels
. E.g.kubectl get po --show-labels
Task 1
Deploy the Pod from the previous section again.
Edit the pod using kubectl edit
, and change the label. Verify by getting the pods and using --show-labels
. Alternatively you can change the yaml file before redeploying. Try both ways!
Solution
Solution: Labels and pods
kubectl edit deployment [deployment-name]
opens a editor. Change the label there.- Or just edit the .yaml file in your favourite editor before redeploying.
- Verify by
kubectl get pod --show-labels
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: myapp-pod
labels:
newLabel: helloWorld
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