Chapter 1: Understanding Kubernetes and Helm

Here are some answers to the questions presented in this chapter:

1. An application is monolithic if it contains all necessary logic and features in a single application. Monolithic applications can be broken up into multiple different applications, referred to as microservices.
2. Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool. To give a few examples, it solves problems around workload scheduling, availability, and scalability.
3. create, describe, edit, delete, and apply
4. There are many different types of resources a user must understand in order to deploy an application. It is also challenging to maintain synchronized local and live states, manage application life cycle, and maintain boilerplate YAML resource files.
5. Helm includes four life cycle commands that provide users with the ability to easily manage Kubernetes applications. Users apply these commands to interact with Helm charts, which is a packaging of the Kubernetes...