Docker and CI/CD · Middle · Question 67 of 75

What do `maxSurge` and `maxUnavailable` control?

1How many times a crashing pod is restarted
2How much traffic a pod may receive at its peak
✓Correct answer: How many extra or missing pods a rolling update allows

Explanation

maxSurge: 1, maxUnavailable: 0 adds a new pod before removing an old one, keeping full capacity at the cost of extra resources.

Further reading

Kubernetes: Deployments ↗

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