beginnerWorkloads I: Deployment & ReplicaSet

How does kubectl rollout undo work mechanically?

Each revision is backed by a retained ReplicaSet at zero replicas. Rollback simply scales the target previous ReplicaSet back up and the current one down -- the Pod template already exists, making rollback much faster than a fresh deploy.

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