Helm can upgrade and rollback changes to Kubernetes deployments. In this video, learn how to apply a configuration change that changes the number of replicas in the kube-state-metrics 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 want to be running version 0.4.0, …
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Video: Update a Helm chart