How to deploy pods from a PodTemplate?

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1

Im new in k8s and recently I found out about the PodTemplate. I understand its used as its name implies, to be a template to deploy pods. However I have been trying to deloy pods using a simple PodTemplate:

apiVersion: v1
kind: PodTemplate
metadata:
name: webapp-template
#namespace: app
labels:
app: webapp
name: nginx-webapp
template:
metadata:
name: nginx-pod
labels:
name: nginx-pod
app: demo-app
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx-pod
image: nginx

How can I deploy pods using kubectl using a PodTemplate? Or is this object simply meant to be availalble for reading?

2

Use a Deployment, which has a pod template embedded in it.

3

Thanks. For example, I have this deployment yaml:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: nginx-deployment
labels:
name: nginx-deployment
app: demo-app
spec:
replicas: 4
selector:
matchLabels:
name: nginx-pod
app: demo-app
template:
metadata:
name: nginx-pod
labels:
name: nginx-pod
app: demo-app
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx-pod
image: nginx

How do I reference the PodTemplate webapp-template in the Deployment?

4

How do I reference the PodTemplate webapp-template in the Deployment?

You don’t - just create the Deployment