From the course: Cloud Native Development with Node.js, Docker, and Kubernetes
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Add a Helm chart
From the course: Cloud Native Development with Node.js, Docker, and Kubernetes
Add a Helm chart
- [Instructor] In the previous videos, we've packaged our application with Docker, and we installed Kubernetes. So we now need to take our application and deploy it to Kubernetes. To do that, we're going to use Helm. Helm describes itself as helping you define, install and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. Helm provides us with the ability to package our app, along with all of the configuration it needs, into a chart. That chart then describes how our app should be deployed and run. In order to install Helm itself, we can follow the Docs on its website. We can click on Docs, and then go to Using Helm. Under Using Helm, there's Installing Helm. This shows us how to install Helm itself, in a variety of different ways, including Homebrew, which we'll use as we're running on a Mac. Running Brew-installed Kubernetes Helm installs the Helm CLI. Once installed, we type helm init to initialize Helm. This does two things, it sets up my local configuration, and it installs…
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