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Learn Helm

By : Andrew Block, Austin Dewey
Book Image

Learn Helm

By: Andrew Block, Austin Dewey

Overview of this book

Containerization is currently known to be one of the best ways to implement DevOps. While Docker introduced containers and changed the DevOps era, Google developed an extensive container orchestration system, Kubernetes, which is now considered the frontrunner in container orchestration. With the help of this book, you’ll explore the efficiency of managing applications running on Kubernetes using Helm. Starting with a short introduction to Helm and how it can benefit the entire container environment, you’ll then delve into the architectural aspects, in addition to learning about Helm charts and its use cases. You’ll understand how to write Helm charts in order to automate application deployment on Kubernetes. Focused on providing enterprise-ready patterns relating to Helm and automation, the book covers best practices for application development, delivery, and lifecycle management with Helm. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you will have learned how to leverage Helm to develop an enterprise pattern for application delivery.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction and Setup
5
Section 2: Helm Chart Development
9
Section 3: Adanced Deployment Patterns
14
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Creating a CI pipeline to build Helm charts

The concept of CI can be applied to the perspective of a chart developer who builds, tests, packages, and releases Helm charts to a chart repository. In this section, we will describe what using an end-to-end CI pipeline to streamline this process may look like, as well as walk you through how to build an example pipeline. The first step is to design the components required for the example pipeline.

Designing the pipeline

In the previous chapters, developing Helm charts was largely a manual process. While Helm provides automation for creating test hooks in a Kubernetes cluster, the invocation of the helm lint, helm test, or ct lint-and-install commands is manually executed after a change in code to ensure tests still pass. Once linting and testing continue to pass after a code change, the chart can be packaged by running the helm package command. If the chart is served using a GitHub Pages repository (such as the one created in Chapter...