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Versioning - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Versioning

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- [Instructor] To successfully deploy a service, you need to know three things. One, which service is being deployed. Two, what environment that service is being deployed into. And three, what version of the service should be deployed? In this section, we'll explore that third thing, versioning, including why it's important to version services and how to go about doing so. So, why version a service? Well, as a service changes, change will occasionally need to occur at the service's interface. And, it's important this change can occur without immediately breaking all clients that utilize the service. So, versioning allows older interface versions to stick around, providing consumers time to change their clients. That said, the best way to reduce breaking changes is to defer them as long as possible. The technology choices you make can help or hurt in this area. For example, integration with a relational database makes it hard to avoid breaking changes. But utilizing REST, also known as…

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