An ECD Patch is meant to provide a flexible option to define and provision Kubernetes objects that suit your system architecture, or to tailor the ECD to their preferred flavor.
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The ECD patch functionality can be used either from Desktop Online or directly in the ECD specification YAML.
Note that parameters defined by Usage Engine in the ECD specification (Workflows, Workflow Groups) cannot be patch with the ECD Patch functionality. You can however, of course, edit these parameters directly in the ECD specification and apply the changes to the cluster.
Patch Format
The Patch format consists of 2 fields; patch and patchType, embedded under different Kubernetes objects. The patch field is the payload itself, which will be used to patch into the ECD Kubernetes objects. patchType is the field where users can define the patching strategies used to patch the payload.
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