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Learn Helm

You're reading from   Learn Helm Improve productivity, reduce complexity, and speed up cloud-native adoption with Helm for Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839214295
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Block Andrew Block
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction and Setup
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Kubernetes and Helm FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Preparing a Kubernetes and Helm Environment 4. Chapter 3: Installing your First Helm Chart 5. Section 2: Helm Chart Development
6. Chapter 4: Understanding Helm Charts 7. Chapter 5: Building Your First Helm Chart 8. Chapter 6: Testing Helm Charts 9. Section 3: Adanced Deployment Patterns
10. Chapter 7: Automating Helm Processes Using CI/CD and GitOps 11. Chapter 8: Using Helm with the Operator Framework 12. Chapter 9: Helm Security Considerations 13. ASSESSMENTS 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

Operators are important to help ensure that the desired state always matches the live state. Such a feat allows users to more easily maintain a source of truth for resource configuration. Users can leverage the Helm-based operator to provide this type of resource reconciliation, and it is easy to get started because this uses Helm charts as its deployment mechanism. When a CR is created, the Helm operator will install the associated Helm chart to create a new release. Subsequent upgrades will be performed when the CR is modified, and the release will be uninstalled when the CR is deleted.

To manage the operator, cluster administrators can create a separate Helm chart used for creating the operator's resources and CRDs. End users can also create a separate Helm chart that can be used for creating the operator's CRs, along with any other resources that may be relevant.

In the next chapter, we will discuss best practices and topics around security within the Helm...

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