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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839214295

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Helm

Concepts

Containerization

Authors (2):

Andrew Block

Austin Dewey

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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Creating a CD pipeline to deploy applications with Helm

A CD pipeline is a set of repeatable steps that can deploy to one or more different environments in an automated fashion. In this section, we will create a CD pipeline to deploy the nginx chart that we tested and pushed to our GitHub Pages repository in the previous section. GitOps will also be leveraged by referencing the values files saved to a git repository.

Let's design the high-level steps that need to be included in this pipeline.

Designing the pipeline

In previous chapters, deploying to a Kubernetes environment with Helm was a manual process. This CD pipeline, however, is designed to deploy to multiple different environments while abstracting the use of Helm.

The following steps describe the CD workflow that we will cover in this section: