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The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

You're reading from   The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes: Continuously deploying applications with Jenkins to a Kubernetes cluster

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643546
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

1. Deploying Stateful Applications at Scale 2. Enabling Process Communication with Kube API Through Service Accounts FREE CHAPTER 3. Defining Continuous Deployment 4. Packaging Kubernetes Applications 5. Distributing Kubernetes Applications 6. Installing and Setting Up Jenkins 7. Creating a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Jenkins 8. Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and GitOps 9. Now It Is Your Turn 10. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Installing kubectl and Creating a Cluster with minikube 1. Appendix B: Using Kubernetes Operations (kops)

Rolling back Helm revisions

No matter how we deploy our applications and no matter how much we trust our validations, the truth is that sooner or later we'll have to roll back. That is especially true with third-party applications. While we could roll forward faulty applications we developed, the same is often not an option with those that are not in our control. If there is a problem and we cannot fix it fast, the only alternative is to roll back.

Fortunately, Helm provides a mechanism to roll back. Before we try it out, let's take a look at the list of the Charts we installed so far.

 1  helm list

The output is as follows.

NAME    REVISION UPDATED     STATUS   CHART          NAMESPACE
jenkins 2        Thu May ... DEPLOYED jenkins-0.16.1 jenkins

As expected, we have only one Chart running in our cluster. The critical piece of information is that it is the second revision...

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