Update the Web-Front-End of a Google Kubernetes Engine Webapplication

Question

i used this https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials/guestbook?hl=de to bulid a Guestbook with Google Kubernetes Engine. I applyed this an everything works. Now i wanted to change the index.html for a better Look. How can i upload or update the changed file?

I tried to apply the frontend service again with this kubectl apply -f frontend-service.yaml But it did not work.

Answer 1

You will have to rebuild the containers if you make changes to the source code. I suggest you:

• Download docker and run docker build to rebuild the containers locally.
• Push the containers to your own Artifact Registry(AR) following this guide https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/docker/pushing-and-pulling.
• Update the yaml files to point to your own AR.
• Redeploy the application to GKE