Managing applications

At the time of this book's writing, new software has emerged that hopes to tackle the problem of managing Kubernetes applications from a holistic perspective. As application installation and continued management grows more complex, software such as Helm hopes to ease the pain for cluster operators creating, versioning, publishing, and exporting application installation and configuration for other operators. You may have also heard the term GitOps, which uses Git as the source of truth from which all Kubernetes instances can be managed.

While we'll jump deeper into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) in the next chapter, let's see what advantages can be gained by taking advantage of package management within the Kubernetes ecosystem. First, it's important to understand what problem we're trying to solve when it comes to package management within the Kubernetes ecosystem. Helm and programs like it have a lot in common with package managers such as apt...