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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)

Customizing Helm installations

We'll almost never install a Chart as we did. Even though the default values do often make a lot of sense, there is always something we need to tweak to make an application behave as we expect.

What if we do not want the Jenkins tag predefined in the Chart? What if for some reason we want to deploy Jenkins 2.112-alpine?

There must be a sensible way to change the tag of the stable/jenkins Chart.

Helm allows us to modify installation through variables. All we need to do is to find out which variables are available.

Besides visiting project's documentation, we can retrieve the available values through the command that follows.

 1  helm inspect values stable/jenkins

The output, limited to the relevant parts, is as follows.

...
Master:
  Name: jenkins-master
  Image: "jenkins/jenkins"
  ImageTag: "lts"
...

We can see that...

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