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title: Performing a Rollback on a DaemonSet
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This page shows how to perform a rollback on a DaemonSet. 

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* The DaemonSet rollout history and DaemonSet rollback features are only
  supported in `kubectl` in Kubernetes version 1.7 or later.
* Make sure you know how to [perform a rolling update on a
  DaemonSet](/docs/tasks/manage-daemon/update-daemon-set/).

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## Performing a Rollback on a DaemonSet

### Step 1: Find the DaemonSet revision you want to roll back to

You can skip this step if you just want to roll back to the last revision.

List all revisions of a DaemonSet:

```shell
kubectl rollout history daemonset <daemonset-name>
```

This returns a list of DaemonSet revisions:

```shell
daemonsets "<daemonset-name>"
REVISION        CHANGE-CAUSE
1               ...
2               ...
...
```

* Change cause is copied from DaemonSet annotation `kubernetes.io/change-cause`
  to its revisions upon creation. You may specify `--record=true` in `kubectl`
  to record the command executed in the change cause annotation.

To see the details of a specific revision:

```shell
kubectl rollout history daemonset <daemonset-name> --revision=1
```

This returns the details of that revision:

```shell
daemonsets "<daemonset-name>" with revision #1
Pod Template:
Labels:       foo=bar
Containers:
app:
 Image:       ...
 Port:        ...
 Environment: ...
 Mounts:      ...
Volumes:       ...
```

### Step 2: Roll back to a specific revision

```shell
# Specify the revision number you get from Step 1 in --to-revision
kubectl rollout undo daemonset <daemonset-name> --to-revision=<revision>
```

If it succeeds, the command returns:

```shell
daemonset "<daemonset-name>" rolled back
```

If `--to-revision` flag is not specified, the last revision will be picked.

### Step 3: Watch the progress of the DaemonSet rollback

`kubectl rollout undo daemonset` tells the server to start rolling back the
DaemonSet. The real rollback is done asynchronously on the server side.

To watch the progress of the rollback:

```shell 
kubectl rollout status ds/<daemonset-name> 
```

When the rollback is complete, the output is similar to this:

```shell
daemonset "<daemonset-name>" successfully rolled out
```

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## Understanding DaemonSet Revisions

In the previous `kubectl rollout history` step, you got a list of DaemonSet
revisions. Each revision is stored in a resource named `ControllerRevision`.
`ControllerRevision` is a resource only available in Kubernetes release 1.7 or
later.

To see what is stored in each revision, find the DaemonSet revision raw
resources:

```shell
kubectl get controllerrevision -l <daemonset-selector-key>=<daemonset-selector-value>
```

This returns a list of `ControllerRevisions`:

```shell
NAME                               CONTROLLER                     REVISION   AGE
<daemonset-name>-<revision-hash>   DaemonSet/<daemonset-name>     1          1h
<daemonset-name>-<revision-hash>   DaemonSet/<daemonset-name>     2          1h
```

Each `ControllerRevision` stores the annotations and template of a DaemonSet
revision.

`kubectl rollout undo` takes a specific `ControllerRevision` and replaces
DaemonSet template with the template stored in the `ControllerRevision`.
`kubectl rollout undo` is equivalent to updating DaemonSet template to a
previous revision through other commands, such as `kubectl edit` or `kubectl
apply`.

Note that DaemonSet revisions only roll forward. That is to say, after a
rollback is complete, the revision number (`.revision` field) of the
`ControllerRevision` being rolled back to will advance. For example, if you
have revision 1 and 2 in the system, and roll back from revision 2 to revision
1, the `ControllerRevision` with `.revision: 1` will become `.revision: 3`.

## Troubleshooting

* See [troubleshooting DaemonSet rolling
  update](/docs/tasks/manage-daemon/update-daemon-set/#troubleshooting).

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