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Declarative vs. Imperative

Explore the differences between declarative and imperative approaches for scaling Kubernetes applications. Understand why managing updates declaratively via YAML files ensures consistency and reliability in your deployment, while imperative commands can lead to mismatches in cluster state. This lesson helps you grasp best practices for maintaining scalable, synchronized Kubernetes applications.

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We’ve seen the following two ways to perform updates:

  • Declaratively: The declarative method is the preferred method and requires all updates to be performed through YAML configuration files.

  • Imperatively: The imperativemethod uses kubectl commands to ...