Kubernetes Strategic Merge Patch

External

• https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/sig-api-machinery/strategic-merge-patch.md
• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/blob/master/docs/glossary.md#patchstrategicmerge

Internal

• kubectl kustomize
• kubectl apply
• kubectl edit
• kubectl patch

Overview

A strategic merge patch is a customized version of JSON patch and it looks like an incomplete YAML specification of a k8s resource.