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Learn Helm
Learn Helm

Learn Helm: Improve productivity, reduce complexity, and speed up cloud-native adoption with Helm for Kubernetes

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Key benefits

  • Effectively manage applications deployed in Kubernetes using Helm
  • Learn to install, upgrade, share, and manage applications deployed in Kubernetes
  • Get up and running with a package manager for Kubernetes

Description

Containerization is currently known to be one of the best ways to implement DevOps. While Docker introduced containers and changed the DevOps era, Google developed an extensive container orchestration system, Kubernetes, which is now considered the frontrunner in container orchestration. With the help of this book, you’ll explore the efficiency of managing applications running on Kubernetes using Helm. Starting with a short introduction to Helm and how it can benefit the entire container environment, you’ll then delve into the architectural aspects, in addition to learning about Helm charts and its use cases. You’ll understand how to write Helm charts in order to automate application deployment on Kubernetes. Focused on providing enterprise-ready patterns relating to Helm and automation, the book covers best practices for application development, delivery, and lifecycle management with Helm. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you will have learned how to leverage Helm to develop an enterprise pattern for application delivery.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Kubernetes developers or administrators who are interested in learning Helm to provide automation for application development on Kubernetes. Although no prior knowledge of Helm is required, basic knowledge of Kubernetes application development will be useful.

What you will learn

  • Develop an enterprise automation strategy on Kubernetes using Helm
  • Create easily consumable and configurable Helm charts
  • Use Helm in orchestration tooling and Kubernetes operators
  • Explore best practices for application delivery and life cycle management
  • Leverage Helm in a secure and stable manner that is fit for your enterprise
  • Discover the ins and outs of automation with Helm

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Table of Contents

14 Chapters
Section 1: Introduction and Setup Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Understanding Kubernetes and Helm Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Preparing a Kubernetes and Helm Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Installing your First Helm Chart Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Helm Chart Development Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Understanding Helm Charts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Building Your First Helm Chart Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Testing Helm Charts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Adanced Deployment Patterns Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Automating Helm Processes Using CI/CD and GitOps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Using Helm with the Operator Framework Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Helm Security Considerations Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
ASSESSMENTS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Balazs Szeti Nov 02, 2020
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Despite Helm 3 getting more and more attention around Kubernetes application management there are still not many related books around. This book is a great choice to start with if you want to learn Helm basics. Obviously you need a basic understanding of containers and Kubernetes - that you probably have if you heard about Helm - but otherwise the book is an easy read for beginners.There a detailed step by step guide how to setup an environment (CLI tools and Minikube) on your own laptop so you don't need a "real" Kubernetes cluster. The chapters are built upon each other, in some way the book feels like workshop or a training guide, you can also find some "knowledge check" questions at the end of each chapter. It's great to have the output of each command included, so even if you don't want to try them yourself you can easily follow what would happen after each step.As being a relatively short read, this book is ideal for starters. It doesn't get lost in the details of edge cases or deployment "theories" nor tries to be a full reference for Helm - we have the documentation for that already.
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Nicolas Gabriel Schenker Oct 15, 2020
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The authors have written a comprehensive introduction to Helm. The book is easy to read and all instructions are provided as simple and easy to follow step by step guidelines.The first chapter of the book, Understanding Kubernetes and Helm, is easy to read yet very thoughtful introduction into the topic, starting from applications to containers and Kubernetes and finally to Helm, the subject of the book. In the next chapter, Preparing a Kubernetes and Helm Environment, the authors go to great length to describe in detail how to prepare a reader's system for use with helm. I particularly like the fact that they give clear and comprehensive instructions for all 3 major operating systems, namely Windows, MacOS and Linux. The subsequent chapters lead the reader through the details of what a Helm chart is and how one can be authored, debugged and tested. It the touches on more advanced topics such as integrating Helm in your CI/CD pipeline, using Helm with the Operator Framework and last but least provides some useful thoughts about security and Helm.The book targets developers and DevOps engineers with no prior knowledge of Helm and a basic understanding of containers and Kubernetes.I can highly recommend this book.
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Chris F Feb 12, 2021
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I just now received this book and have been reading it for 2 hours, so far so good. I am in Chapter 3, ad doing the exercises, and wanted to just be able to copy/paste the commands, so I went onto the Packt website to download the PDF or other eBook formats - NONE provided for this book! What? I see the code download link, but that does NOT have everything. Come on guys - provide a PDF to be able to cut/paste some of the long commands.Hence 3 stars instead of 5, which the book probably deserves on the content.EDIT: Downgraded from 3 to 2 starsI get to Chapter 7 to learn CI/CD & GitOps. When installing the jenkins helm chart, the Jenkins pod does NOT start because liveliness and readiness probes fail, and just keeps restarting the pod. Where is the code for the Jenkins pipeline? This is probably the MOST important chapter in the book.
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G-Slave Dec 29, 2020
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You get past chapter 4 and it becomes incomprehensible. Rather than teaching you anything, the book just has you copy/paste snippets of YAML configs while poorly explaining it, if at all.
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