Running PetBattle

In Chapter 6, Open Technical Practices – Beginnings, Starting Right, we talked about Helm and its use as an application lifecycle manager for installing, upgrading, and rolling back application deployments. We are going to start with the command line, but you can skip to the end of this section if you would like to follow the web console method. If you need help installing the Helm command-line tool, take a look at Chapter 6 as a refresher. Now let's see how we can easily deploy the PetBattle suite of applications as Helm charts into a single project on OpenShift. On your terminal, add the PetBattle Helm repositories:

$ helm repo add petbattle \
     https://petbattle.github.io/helm-charts

There are three main applications that make up PetBattle and are searchable in the Helm repository:

Table 14.2: The three main applications making up PetBattle

The infrastructure Helm chart is normally deployed as a dependency...