Now you have a little experience with Helm and can use the command-line tool to install a chart from a community repository, we are going to take a look at how you can leverage Helm to build charts for your own applications.
We will walk through using Helm to deploy the versions application that we manually deployed in Chapter 4, Managing Change in Your Applications. The aim here is for us to replicate the deployments we made in Chapter 4, Managing Change in Your Applications, but this time to encapsulate the configuration in a Helm chart so it is simple to make configuration changes, deploy new versions of our code, and even deploy the same configuration multiple times.
Helm makes it very easy to build a chart and deploy it to your cluster. The Helm command-line tool has some commands that will get us started very quickly. The helm create command will...