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+# Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+from pprint import pprint
+
+from kubernetes import client, config
+
+
+def main():
+    """
+    Update image of container1 in deployment deploy1:
+    """
+    # Configs can be set in Configuration class directly or using helper
+    # utility. If no argument provided, the config will be loaded from
+    # default location.
+    config.load_kube_config()
+
+    api_instance = client.AppsV1beta1Api()
+
+    body = {
+        "spec": {
+            "template": {
+                "spec": {
+                    "containers": [
+                        {
+                            "name": "container1",
+                            "image": "gcr.io/xxx/image:tag"
+                        }
+                    ]
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    api_response = api_instance.patch_namespaced_deployment(
+        'deploy1', 'default', body, pretty=True)
+
+    pprint(api_response)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()