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Rolling Update and Rollback

In namespace default, Deployment app-v1 exists with image nginx:1.20.

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Task

In namespace default, Deployment app-v1 exists with image nginx:1.20.

Requirements

  1. Update the Deployment to use image nginx:1.25
  2. Verify the rolling update completes successfully
  3. Rollback to the previous revision
  4. Verify the rollback completed and the image is back to nginx:1.20
Exam
CKAD
Domain
Application Deployment
Grading
Programmatic · partial credit

What this tests

Roll out and update deployments, run canary and blue-green strategies, and right-size workloads. On the CKAD exam, Application Deployment tasks are graded purely on what you build in the cluster - not multiple choice - so the only way to get faster is to do them on a real cluster against a clock.

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