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Managing Kubernetes Resources Using Helm - Second Edition

By : Andrew Block, Austin Dewey
Book Image

Managing Kubernetes Resources Using Helm - Second Edition

By: Andrew Block, Austin Dewey

Overview of this book

Containerization is one of the best ways to implement DevOps, and learning how to execute it effectively is an essential part of a developer’s skillset. Kubernetes is the current industry standard for container orchestration. This book will help you discover the efficiency of managing applications running on Kubernetes with Helm. Starting with a brief introduction to Helm and its impact on users working with containers and Kubernetes, you’ll delve into the primitives of Helm charts and their architecture and use cases. From there, you’ll understand how to write Helm charts in order to automate application deployment on Kubernetes and work your way toward more advanced strategies. These enterprise-ready patterns are focused on concepts beyond the basics so that you can use Helm optimally, looking at topics related to automation, application development, delivery, lifecycle management, and security. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to leverage Helm to build, deploy, and manage applications on Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction and Setup
5
Part 2: Helm Chart Development
12
Part 3: Advanced Deployment Patterns

Downloading chart dependencies

Chart dependencies can be viewed and downloaded using the helm dependency subcommands listed in the following table:

Command

Description

helm dependency list

Lists the dependencies for the given chart.

helm dependency update

Downloads the dependencies listed in Chart.yaml and generates a Chart.lock file.

helm dependency build

Downloads the dependencies listed in Chart.lock. If the Chart.lock file is not found, then this command will mirror the behavior of the helm dependency update command.

Let’s explore these commands by using the example Helm charts located in the chapter5/examples folder of this book’s GitHub repository; we cloned these at the beginning of this chapter. We’...