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The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Building on The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit: Kubernetes, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to continuously deploying applications with Jenkins into a Kubernetes cluster. The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit: Continuously Deploying Applications with Jenkins to a Kubernetes Cluster is the latest book in Viktor Farcic’s series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book guides readers through the process of building, testing, and deploying applications through fully automated pipelines. Within this book, Viktor will cover a wide-range of emerging topics, including an exploration of continuous delivery and deployment in Kubernetes using Jenkins. It also shows readers how to perform continuous integration inside these clusters, and discusses the distribution of Kubernetes applications, as well as installing and setting up Jenkins. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Now It Is Your Turn

Customizing Helm installations

We'll almost never install a Chart as we did. Even though the default values do often make a lot of sense, there is always something we need to tweak to make an application behave as we expect.

What if we do not want the Jenkins tag predefined in the Chart? What if for some reason we want to deploy Jenkins 2.112-alpine?

There must be a sensible way to change the tag of the stable/jenkins Chart.

Helm allows us to modify installation through variables. All we need to do is to find out which variables are available.

Besides visiting project's documentation, we can retrieve the available values through the command that follows.

 1  helm inspect values stable/jenkins

The output, limited to the relevant parts, is as follows.

...
Master:
  Name: jenkins-master
  Image: "jenkins/jenkins"
  ImageTag: "lts"
...

We can see that...