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Managing Kubernetes Resources Using Helm - Second Edition
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In this chapter, you learned how to install a Helm chart and manage its life cycle. We began by searching Artifact Hub for a WordPress chart to install. After locating a chart, the repository containing the chart was added by following the instructions from its Artifact Hub page. We then proceeded to inspect the WordPress chart to create a set of values that overrides their defaults. These values were saved to a values file called wordpress-values.yaml, which was then provided during the installation.
After the chart was installed, we used helm upgrade to upgrade the release by providing additional values. We then performed a rollback with helm rollback to restore the chart to a previous state. Finally, we removed the WordPress release at the end of the exercise with helm uninstall.
This chapter taught you how to leverage Helm as an end user, and how to use an already-written Helm chart. In the next chapter, we will explore the concepts and structure of a Helm chart in...