{"id":40099,"date":"2023-09-22T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=40099"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:45:15","slug":"kubernetes-tutorials-how-to-modify-change-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/kubernetes-tutorials-how-to-modify-change-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubernetes Tutorials: How to modify CHANGE-CAUSE in Deployment revision"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JavaScript\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"javascript\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-javascript\">To modify CHANGE-CAUSE, you can use the following methods:\n\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">1.<\/span> kubectl annotate\n\n$ kubectl annotate deployment\/my-dep kubernetes.io\/change-cause=<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"my change cause\"<\/span>\n\nThis will add or update the kubernetes.io\/change-cause annotation on the my-dep deployment.\n\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">2.<\/span> kubectl edit\n\n$ kubectl edit deployment\/my-dep\n\nThis will open the deployment manifest <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> a text editor. You can then edit the kubernetes.io\/change-cause annotation and save the file.\n\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">3.<\/span> Update the deployment manifest\n\nYou can manually edit the deployment manifest to add or update the kubernetes.io\/change-cause annotation.\n\nOnce you have modified the CHANGE-CAUSE, you can check the rollout history to see the updated change cause:\n\n$ kubectl rollout history deploy\/my-dep\n\nHere is an example <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">of<\/span> a rollout history <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">with<\/span> a modified CHANGE-CAUSE:\n\ndeployment.apps\/my-dep\nREVISION  CHANGE-CAUSE\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">3<\/span>         &lt;none&gt;\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">4<\/span>         &lt;none&gt;\n<span class=\"hljs-number\">5<\/span>         my change cause\n\n<span class=\"hljs-attr\">Note<\/span>: The CHANGE-CAUSE annotation is copied to the deployment revisions upon creation. So, <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span> you modify the CHANGE-CAUSE annotation on the deployment, the change will be reflected <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> the existing revisions <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> well.<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kubernetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40105,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099\/revisions\/40105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}