From the course: Kubernetes: Package Management with Helm

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Update a Helm chart

Update a Helm chart

From the course: Kubernetes: Package Management with Helm

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Update a Helm chart

- [Narrator] As an Apps engineer, software upgrades are a big part of my job. Luckily, Helm has commands that let you quickly install a different version of a chart. We've installed the latest version of the kube-state-metrics chart in our cluster, and we can see that version number with the command helm ls-n metrics. Right now we're running kube-state-metrics chart version 0.4.3. If you're following along, the version in your cluster is probably more recent. You might notice there are two different version numbers, the chart version and the app version. The chart version is the version of the Helm chart, while the application version is the version of the underlying code that gets installed as a pod or set of pods. Sometimes you don't want the latest version of the Helm chart, because it contains changes that break your microservices or applications. This is where the Helm upgrade command comes in handy. Let's say I…

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