forked from cerc-io/stack-orchestrator
Strategic merge patch preserves fields not present in the patch body. This means removed volumes, ports, and env vars persist in the running Deployment after a restart. Replace sends the complete spec built from the current compose files — removed fields are actually deleted. Affects Deployment, Service, Ingress, and NodePort updates. Service replace preserves clusterIP (immutable field) by reading it from the existing resource before replacing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>