# Deployments — Checking Rollout History of a Deployment

> Follow the steps given below to check the rollout history First, check the revisions of this Deployment Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl rollout history deployment/nginx-deployment ``` The output is similar to this Bounded code example (external da

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## Knowledge

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Follow the steps given below to check the rollout history

First, check the revisions of this Deployment

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl rollout history deployment/nginx-deployment
```

The output is similar to this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
   deployments "nginx-deployment"
   REVISION    CHANGE-CAUSE
   1           &lt;none&gt;
   2           &lt;none&gt;
   3           &lt;none&gt;
```

CHANGE-CAUSE is copied from the Deployment annotation kubernetes.io/change-cause to its revisions upon creation. You can specify theCHANGE-CAUSE message by

Annotating the Deployment with kubectl annotate deployment/nginx-deployment kubernetes.io/change-cause="image updated to 1.16.1" Manually editing the manifest of the resource. Using tooling that sets the annotation automatically.

In older versions of Kubernetes, you could use the --record flag with kubectl commands to automatically populate the CHANGE-CAUSE field. This flag is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

To see the details of each revision, run

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl rollout history deployment/nginx-deployment --revision=2
```

The output is similar to this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
   deployments "nginx-deployment" revision 2
     Labels:       app=nginx
             pod-template-hash=1159050644
     Containers:
      nginx:
       Image:      nginx:1.16.1
       Port:       80/TCP
        QoS Tier:
           cpu:      BestEffort
           memory:   BestEffort
       Environment Variables:      &lt;none&gt;
     No volumes.
```

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