We used kubectl set image just as a way to introduce you to what’s coming next when we explore frequent deployments without downtime.

A simple update of Pod images is far from what Deployment offers. To see its real power, we should deploy the API. Since it can be scaled to multiple Pods, it’ll provide us with a much better playground.

Before we move on, let’s finish with the database by adding a Service and, therefore, enabling internal cluster communication to it.