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Is there a way to scale replication controller via API in kubernetes.

By using kubeclt command, it may be done by running: 

kubectl scale --replicas=1 --namespace=kube-system rc my_replication_controller

But how to achieve it using API?

Moving through docs, I found only "replace scale of the specified Scale" and "partially update scale of the specified Scale" among write operations. But I think this is not what I need.

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    In general, you can use the --v=9 flag of kubectl to see which API call it uses.
    – jofel
    Commented Jan 30, 2018 at 7:43

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After long playing with it and consulting on slack DevOps chat, I was able to figure it out. Here is a workable curl: 

curl -sSk -H \"Authorization: Bearer ${KUBE_TOKEN}\" -H 'Content-Type: application/merge-patch+json' -X 'PATCH' $URL_NAME/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/replicationcontrollers/kube-registry-v0 -d '{"spec": {"replicas":  1}}'

One of the important components here is "Content-Type: application/merge-patch+json" Without it specification, Kubernetes will not recognize data in API request correctly.

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