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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition
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Mastering Kubernetes - Fourth Edition

by Gigi Sayfan
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
746 pages
18h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Packaging Applications

In this chapter, we are going to look into Helm, the popular Kubernetes package manager. Every successful and non-trivial platform must have a good packaging system. Helm was developed by Deis (acquired by Microsoft in April 2017) and later contributed to the Kubernetes project directly. It became a CNCF project in 2018. We will start by understanding the motivation for Helm, its architecture, and its components. Then, we’ll get hands-on and see how to use Helm and its charts within Kubernetes. That includes finding, installing, customizing, deleting, and managing charts. Last but not least, we’ll cover how to create your own charts and handle versioning, dependencies, and templating.

The topics we will cover are as ...

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ISBN: 9781804611395