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Deployment with Helm

Deployment with Helm - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Deployment with Helm

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- [Instructor] Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. Kubernetes is all about YAML files, and after a while, when your YAML files grow large, it becomes incredibly painful to debug issues. This is why people use Helm to manage the complexity of their YAMLs. It also provides a way to easily update and rollback their Kubernetes artifacts. And finally, it's also the most popular place to find user-generated charts. Think of it like a maven for Java, but for Kubernetes instead. Let's take a look at how this works for our application. In our exercise files, we have a wishlist folder that contains our Helm examples. Let's take a look at Chart.yaml first. As we notice, we have some basic information in here including apiVersion, appVersion, a description name, and a different version. If you go into our templates, this is where the fun really begins. I've broken this template out into a deployment and a service section, just to make it a little bit more cleaner and easier to understand…

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