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kubectl: Command-Line Kubernetes in a Nutshell

You're reading from   kubectl: Command-Line Kubernetes in a Nutshell Deploy, manage, and debug container workloads using the Kubernetes CLI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800561878
Length 136 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rimantas Mocevicius Rimantas Mocevicius
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with kubectl
2. Chapter 1: Introducing and Installing kubectl FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Kubernetes Cluster and Node Management
4. Chapter 2: Getting Information about a Cluster 5. Chapter 3: Working with Nodes 6. Section 3: Application Management
7. Chapter 4: Creating and Deploying Applications 8. Chapter 5: Updating and Deleting Applications 9. Chapter 6: Debugging an Application 10. Section 4: Extending kubectl
11. Chapter 7: Working with kubectl Plugins 12. Chapter 8: Introducing Kustomize for Kubernetes 13. Chapter 9: Introducing Helm for Kubernetes 14. Chapter 10: kubectl Best Practices and Docker Commands 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Rolling back to a previous Helm release

In this section, let's see how to roll back to a previous version using the helm rollback command.

The helm rollback command is unique to Helm, and it allows us to roll back the whole application, so you do not have to worry about which Kubernetes resources need to be rolled back specifically.

Of course, when dealing with the release IDs of real-world applications, database schemas get changed as well, so to roll back the frontend application, you have to roll back the database schema changes too. This means that things aren't always so straightforward as they may seem here, but using Helm still simplifies some parts of the application release rollback process.

To run the helm rollback command, we first need to know the release revision we want to roll back to, which we can find with the following command:

$ helm history postgresql

The output of the preceding command is shown in the following screenshot:

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