Restart pods when configmap updates in Kubernetes?

Question

How do I automatically restart Kubernetes pods and pods associated with deployments when their configmap is changed/updated?

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I know there\'s been talk about th

Answer 1

Another way is to stick it into the command section of the Deployment:

...
command: [ "echo", "
  option = value\n
  other_option = value\n
" ]
...

Alternatively, to make it more ConfigMap-like, use an additional Deployment that will just host that config in the command section and execute kubectl create on it while adding an unique 'version' to its name (like calculating a hash of the content) and modifying all the deployments that use that config:

...
command: [ "/usr/sbin/kubectl-apply-config.sh", "
  option = value\n
  other_option = value\n
" ]
...

I'll probably post kubectl-apply-config.sh if it ends up working.

(don't do that; it looks too bad)