Chapter 4: Automated operations 4.2.2 Re-create strategy View in the book. Buy the book. Rollout changes to Deployments with re-create. Figure 4.3 A Pod status during a rollout with the re-create strategy. During this type of rollout, the app will experience a period of total downtime and a period of degraded capacity. Previous Next: 4.2.3 Blue/green strategy