The Recreate strategy is much better suited for our single-replica database. We should have set up the native database replication (not the same as Kubernetes ReplicaSet object), but, that is out of the scope of this chapter.

If we’re running the database as a single replica, we must have mounted a network drive volume. That would allow us to avoid data loss when updating it or in case of a failure. Since most databases (MongoDB included) cannot have multiple instances writing to the same data files, killing the old release before creating a new one is a good strategy when replication is absent. We’ll apply it later.