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Managing Kubernetes Resources Using Helm

You're reading from   Managing Kubernetes Resources Using Helm Simplifying how to build, package, and distribute applications for Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242897
Length 310 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Andrew Block Andrew Block
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction and Setup
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Kubernetes and Helm FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Preparing a Kubernetes and Helm Environment 4. Chapter 3: Installing Your First App with Helm 5. Part 2: Helm Chart Development
6. Chapter 4: Scaffolding a New Helm Chart 7. Chapter 5: Helm Dependency Management 8. Chapter 6: Understanding Helm Templates 9. Chapter 7: Helm Lifecycle Hooks 10. Chapter 8: Publishing to a Helm Chart Repository 11. Chapter 9: Testing Helm Charts 12. Part 3: Advanced Deployment Patterns
13. Chapter 10: Automating Helm with CD and GitOps 14. Chapter 11: Using Helm with the Operator Framework 15. Chapter 12: Helm Security Considerations 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Updating the Guestbook Chart.yaml file

The scaffolded Chart.yaml file that helm create generated is catered around NGINX and not Guestbook as we would desire. Let’s make a couple of quick changes to improve the content:

  1. First, let’s update the chart description to better describe the application our chart will deploy. Update the description field of Chart.yaml to the following (or feel free to provide your own):
    description: An application used for keeping a running record of guests
  2. Next, let’s provide a more appropriate appVersion setting that better suits the version of Guestbook that our chart will deploy. The latest version of Guestbook is v5, so let’s use this as our appVersion:
    appVersion: v5

Our Chart.yaml file should now look like this (with the comments removed):

Figure 4.8 – The updated Chart.yaml file for Guestbook

Feel free to add any of the other Chart.yaml fields as well, but these changes, at...

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