Updating without downtime
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To avoid service unavailability, you can update an instance group by creating additional instances with a new configuration.
As you add instances with a new configuration to the group, the instances with the old configuration are deleted.
To do this:
- Define the desired template of an instance.
- Set the deployment policy with a non-zero value of
max_expansion: the maximum number of additionally created instances. - Run the update operation for the group.
For example, to update a group using the algorithm described, set the following parameters in the deploy-policy:
...
deploy-policy:
max_unavailable = 0
max_expansion = 1
...
...
The group will be updated as follows:
