`kubectl patch` each element of array - kubectl

Question

I would like to patch all container templates in a Kubernetes deployment with a single kubectl patch command, without having to know their name. Is that possible?
I know I am able to achieve the replacement through awk, sed, jq and kubectl replace, but I would favour something like a [*] in the expression...
Patch command for a certain container spec
kubectl patch deployment mydeployment -p '{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"myname","imagePullPolicy":"Always"}]}}}}'
Example Deployment
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
spec:
replicas: 1
template:
spec:
containers:
- image: example.com/my/fancyimage:latest
imagePullPolicy: Never
name: myname
dnsPolicy: ClusterFirst
restartPolicy: Always

Answer 1

It's not exactly what you asked, since i use here command line tools, but if it would appear here, it would save me some time. So i post it for others, who come here from search engines.
kubectl \
--username=USERNAME \
--password=PASSWORD \
--server="https://EXAMPLE.COM" \
--insecure-skip-tls-verify=true \
--namespace=MY_NAMESPACE \
get deployments | \
grep -v NAME | cut -f1 -d" " | \
xargs kubectl \
--username=USERNAME \
--password=PASSWORD \
--server="https://EXAMPLE.COM" \
--insecure-skip-tls-verify=true \
--namespace=MY_NAMESPACE \
patch deployment \
-p='{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"containers":[{"name":"myname","imagePullPolicy":"Always"}]}}}}'

Answer 2

The best practice way of achieving this, assuming you want this to be an ongoing requirement, would be to use the AlwaysPullImages AdmissionController
AlwaysPullImages
This admission controller modifies every new Pod to force the image pull policy to Always...
You would apply this to your api controller by appending it to the --enable-admission-plugins argument