# Deployments — Updating a Deployment

> A Deployment's rollout is triggered if and only if the Deployment's Pod template (that is, .spec.template) is changed, for example if the labels or container images of the template are updated.

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## Knowledge

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A Deployment's rollout is triggered if and only if the Deployment's Pod template (that is, .spec.template) is changed, for example if the labels or container images of the template are updated. Other updates, such as scaling the Deployment, do not trigger a rollout.

Follow the steps given below to update your Deployment

Let's update the nginx Pods to use the nginx:1.16.1 image instead of the nginx:1.14.2 image.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl set image deployment.v1.apps/nginx-deployment nginx=nginx:1.16.1
```

or use the following command

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl set image deployment/nginx-deployment nginx=nginx:1.16.1
```

where deployment/nginx-deployment indicates the Deployment, nginx indicates the Container the update will take place and nginx:1.16.1 indicates the new image and its tag.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
   deployment.apps/nginx-deployment image updated
```

Alternatively, you can edit the Deployment and change .spec.template.spec.containers[0].image from nginx:1.14.2 to nginx:1.16.1

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

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
   deployment.apps/nginx-deployment edited
```

To see the rollout status, run

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

The output is similar to this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
   Waiting for rollout to finish: 2 out of 3 new replicas have been updated...
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
   deployment "nginx-deployment" successfully rolled out
```

Get more details on your updated Deployment

After the rollout succeeds, you can view the Deployment by running kubectl get deployments. The output is similar to this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
  NAME               READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
  nginx-deployment   3/3     3            3           36s
``` …

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