Kubernetes - Rolling update killing off old pod without bringing up new one

Question

I am currently using Deployments to manage my pods in my K8S cluster.

Some of my deployments require 2 pods/replicas, some require 3 pods/replicas and some of them requi

Answer 1

with Strategy Type set to RollingUpdate a new pod is created before the old one is deleted even with a single replica. Strategy Type Recreate kills old pods before creating new ones https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment/#rolling-update-deployment