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Mastering Kubernetes

You're reading from   Mastering Kubernetes Dive into Kubernetes and learn how to create and operate world-class cloud-native systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611395
Length 746 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Gigi Sayfan Gigi Sayfan
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Kubernetes Architecture 2. Creating Kubernetes Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. High Availability and Reliability 4. Securing Kubernetes 5. Using Kubernetes Resources in Practice 6. Managing Storage 7. Running Stateful Applications with Kubernetes 8. Deploying and Updating Applications 9. Packaging Applications 10. Exploring Kubernetes Networking 11. Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clusters 12. Serverless Computing on Kubernetes 13. Monitoring Kubernetes Clusters 14. Utilizing Service Meshes 15. Extending Kubernetes 16. Governing Kubernetes 17. Running Kubernetes in Production 18. The Future of Kubernetes 19. Other Books You May Enjoy
20. Index

Understanding Helm

Kubernetes provides many ways to organize and orchestrate your containers at runtime, but it lacks a higher-level organization of grouping sets of images together. This is where Helm comes in. In this section, we’ll go over the motivation for Helm, its architecture, and its components. We will discuss Helm 3. You might still find Helm 2 in the wild, but its end of life was at the end of 2020.

As you might recall, Kubernetes means helmsman or navigator in Greek. The Helm project took the nautical theme very seriously, as the project’s name implies. The main Helm concept is the chart. Just as nautical charts describe in detail an area in the sea or a coastal region, a Helm chart describes in detail all the parts of an application.

Helm is designed to perform the following:

  • Build charts from the ground up
  • Bundle charts into archive files (.tgz)
  • Interact with repositories containing charts
  • Deploy and remove charts in...
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