JSON Patch

External

• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6902
• https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/manage-kubernetes-objects/update-api-object-kubectl-patch/

Internal

• JSON
• JSON Merge Patch
• kubectl kustomize
• Kubernetes Strategic Merge Patch
• kubectl patch

Overview

Also see:

JSON Merge Patch

Kubernetes Strategic Merge Patch

JSON patch is defined in RFC6902.

JSON patch defines a JSON document structure for expressing a sequence of operations to apply to a JSON document, in order to change it. The format is suitable to use with the HTTP PATCH method and an "application/json-patch+json" media type.