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End-to-End Automation with Kubernetes and Crossplane

You're reading from   End-to-End Automation with Kubernetes and Crossplane Develop a control plane-based platform for unified infrastructure, services, and application automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811545
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arun Ramakani Arun Ramakani
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Kubernetes Disruption
2. Chapter 1: Introducing the New Operating Model FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Examining the State of Infrastructure Automation 4. Part 2: Building a Modern Infrastructure Platform
5. Chapter 3: Automating Infrastructure with Crossplane 6. Chapter 4: Composing Infrastructure with Crossplane 7. Chapter 5: Exploring Infrastructure Platform Patterns 8. Chapter 6: More Crossplane Patterns 9. Chapter 7: Extending and Scaling Crossplane 10. Part 3:Configuration Management Tools and Recipes
11. Chapter 8: Knowing the Trade-offs 12. Chapter 9: Using Helm, Kustomize, and KubeVela 13. Chapter 10: Onboarding Applications with Crossplane 14. Chapter 11: Driving the Platform Adoption 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Helm for application deployment

Helm is one of the popular configuration management tools in the Kubernetes ecosystem. It came into existence as early as 2015. It has come a long way in evolving itself and solving all the bottlenecks. Being a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)-graduated project shows its maturity, production readiness, and value. Here are three key concepts of Helm:

  • Charts: Charts are the basic units of applications in Helm. A chart is nothing but the bundled package of an application with all its dependencies.
  • Repository: A bundled chart requires a consistent way of storage to distribute reliably, and repositories support this requirement. While open source applications can use a public repository, private repositories can be used for proprietary applications. Starting from Helm v3.8.0, any Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant repository will support Helm. This means that most container registries support Helm packages as well.
  • Release...
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