Question

You are on call and a Deployment named 'web-frontend' is running 3 Pods, but traffic has spiked and you need it running 6 Pods immediately without editing and reapplying any YAML files. Which command achieves this the fastest?

Accepted Answer

kubectl scale deployment web-frontend --replicas=6

Answer

kubectl edit pod web-frontend --replicas=6

Answer

kubectl create replicaset web-frontend --replicas=6

Answer

kubectl expose deployment web-frontend --replicas=6