kubectl apply command is used to manage applications by creating and updating Kubernetes resources declared in configuration files.
In addition to possibly to manage resources through individual files, there is a way to apply all the YAML files in a folder.
In this short note i will show how to use the kubectl apply command to apply all files in a directory.
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Kubectl Apply Directory
Apply all files in a directory:
$ kubectl apply -f <directory>
Recursively apply all files in subdirectories too:
$ kubectl apply -f <directory> --recursive