Change the image of a pod with the IP address unchanged

Prerequisites

1. The Elastic Container Instance (ECI) and Resource Access Management (RAM) services are activated. A RAM role related to ECI is assigned to your account.
2. The Kubernetes command-line client kubectl is installed on your local computer and is connected to your Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see Connect to a Kubernetes cluster by using kubectl.

Create a pod by running a command

Prepare a YAML file used to create a pod.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx
  namespace: default
spec:
  nodeName: virtual-kubelet
  containers:
  - image: nginx:1.7.9
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    name: nginx

Run the following command to create the pod:

kubectl create -f nginx.yaml

Query the information about the pod by running a command

$ kubectl get pod/nginx -n default -o wide
NAME    READY   STATUS     RESTARTS   AGE         IP                    NODE                  NOMINATED NODE   READINESS GATES
nginx     1/1         Running    0                 7m34s      192.168.0.29   virtual-kubelet   <none>                       <none>

Query the information about the pod in the ECI console

Change the image of the pod by running a command

You can run one of the following kubectl commands to change the image of the bare pod:

• kubectl patch
• kubectl edit
• kubectl apply

In this example, change the image of the pod from the nginx:1.7.9 to nginx:1.9.6.

Run the kubectl apply command

Change the images of containers in the pod in the following YAML file:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx
  namespace: default
spec:
  nodeName: virtual-kubelet
  containers:
  - image: nginx:1.9.6
    imagePullPolicy: Always
    name: nginx	

Run the following kubectl apply command:

kubectl apply -f nginx.yaml		

Run the following kubectl command to verify the image and IP address of the pod:

$ kubectl get pod/nginx -n default -o wide
NAME    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE       IP                   NODE                  NOMINATED NODE   READINESS GATES
nginx     1/1         Running   0                 8m27s   192.168.0.29   virtual-kubelet   <none>                       <none>	 

Run the kubectl edit command

Run the following kubectl edit command to open the editor and change the image of the pod in the YAML file:

kubectl edit pod/nginx -o yaml		

Run the following kubectl command to verify the image and IP address of the pod:

$ kubectl get pod/nginx -n default -o wide
NAME    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE       IP                   NODE                 NOMINATED NODE   READINESS GATES
nginx     1/1         Running   0                 9m11s   192.168.0.29   virtual-kubelet   <none>                     <none>		

Run the kubectl patch command

Run the following kubectl patch command to change the images of containers in the pod:

kubectl patch pod nginx -p '{"spec":{"containers":[{"name": "nginx","image": "nginx:1.9.6"}]}}'

Run the following kubectl command to verify the image and IP address of the pod:

$ kubectl get pod -n default -o wide
NAME    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE       IP                   NODE                 NOMINATED NODE   READINESS GATES
nginx     1/1         Running   0                 9m43s   192.168.0.29   virtual-kubelet   <none>                     <none>	

Verify the result in the ECI console

After the image of the pod is changed, log on to the ECI console and view the details of the pod on the Container Group page. Verify that the image of the pod is changed and the IP address of the pod is not changed.