Summary
In this chapter, you learned how to install a Helm chart and manage its life cycle. We began by searching Helm Hub for a WordPress chart to install. After locating a chart, the repository containing the chart was added by following the instructions from its Helm Hub page. We then proceeded to inspect the WordPress chart to create a set of values that overrides their defaults. These values were saved to a values
file, which was then provided during the installation.
After the chart was installed, we used helm upgrade
to upgrade the release by providing additional values. We performed a rollback after this with helm rollback
to restore the chart to a previous state. Finally, we removed the WordPress release at the end of the exercise with helm uninstall
.
This chapter taught you how to leverage Helm as an end user and chart consumer. You used Helm as a package manager to install a Kubernetes application to your cluster. You also managed the life cycle of the application...