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Discussion on: Understanding Kubernetes: part 5 – Configmaps

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Aurélie Vache

Imagine you have an app which needed a configuration file (configuration.properties). In this conf file you have properties like an url, a port, an username..

When the app started it load the conf

You can use ConfigMap which embed this conf file and then link the ConfigMap to your pod.

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Aurélie Vache

If you want to tell to kubernetes which container image tag to run, use Kustomize for example