Kubernetes Deployment Workflows

When to Apply

• User mentions: "deploy", "release", "rollout", "scale", "update", "upgrade"
• Operations: creating deployments, updating images, scaling replicas
• Strategies: canary, blue-green, rolling update, recreate
• Keywords: "new version", "push to production", "traffic shifting"

Priority Rules

template_helm_chart

get_pods

list_helm_releases

rollout_*

get_pod_metrics

get_endpoints

get_helm_history

scale_deployment

Quick Reference

kubectl_apply

apply_manifest(yaml, namespace)

install_helm_chart

install_helm_chart(name, chart, namespace)

set_deployment_image

set_deployment_image(name, ns, container, image)

scale_deployment

scale_deployment(name, ns, replicas=5)

rollback_deployment

rollback_deployment(name, ns, revision=0)

rollout_promote_tool

rollout_promote_tool(name, ns)

Standard Deployments

Deploy from Manifest

kubectl_apply(manifest_yaml, namespace)

Deploy with Helm

install_helm_chart(
    name="my-app",
    chart="bitnami/nginx",
    namespace="production",
    values={"replicaCount": 3}
)

Scale Deployment

scale_deployment(name, namespace, replicas=5)

Rolling Update

set_deployment_image(name, namespace, container="app", image="myapp:v2")

rollout_status(name, namespace, resource_type="deployment")

Progressive Delivery

Argo Rollouts (Recommended)

rollouts_list_tool(namespace)

rollout_status_tool(name, namespace)

rollout_promote_tool(name, namespace)

rollout_abort_tool(name, namespace)

rollout_retry_tool(name, namespace)

Flagger Canary

flagger_canaries_list_tool(namespace)
flagger_canary_get_tool(name, namespace)

Deployment Strategies

set_deployment_image

rollout_status

rollout_*

rollout_*

Rollback Operations

Native Kubernetes

rollback_deployment(name, namespace, revision=0)

rollback_deployment(name, namespace, revision=2)

Helm Rollback

rollback_helm_release(name, namespace, revision=1)

Argo Rollouts Rollback

rollout_abort_tool(name, namespace)

Health Verification

get_pods(namespace, label_selector="app=myapp")

get_pod_metrics(name, namespace)

get_endpoints(namespace)

Multi-Cluster Deployments

install_helm_chart(
    name="app",
    chart="./charts/app",
    namespace="prod",
    context="production-us-east"
)

install_helm_chart(
    name="app",
    chart="./charts/app",
    namespace="prod",
    context="production-eu-west"
)

Example Manifests

• examples/canary-rollout.yaml - Argo Rollouts canary
• examples/blue-green.yaml - Blue-green deployment
• examples/hpa-deployment.yaml - Deployment with HPA

Prerequisites

• Argo Rollouts: Required for

  rollout_*

  tools
  bash

  kubectl create namespace argo-rollouts
  kubectl apply -n argo-rollouts -f https://github.com/argoproj/argo-rollouts/releases/latest/download/install.yaml

• Flagger: Required for

  flagger_*

  tools
  bash

  kubectl apply -k github.com/fluxcd/flagger/kustomize/kubernetes

Related Skills

• k8s-gitops - GitOps deployments with Flux/ArgoCD
• k8s-autoscaling - Auto-scale deployments
• k8s-rollouts - Advanced progressive delivery
• k8s-helm - Helm chart operations