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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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1. Deploying Stateful Applications at Scale FREE CHAPTER 2. Enabling Process Communication with Kube API Through Service Accounts 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)

Helm vs. OpenShift templates

I could give you a lengthy comparison between Helm and OpenShift templates. I won't do that. The reason is simple. Helm is the de-facto standard for installing applications. It's the most widely used, and its adoption is going through the roof. Among the similar tools, it has the biggest community, it has the most applications available, and it is becoming adopted by more software vendors than any other solution. The exception is RedHat. They created OpenShift templates long before Helm came into being. Helm borrowed many of its concepts, improved them, and added a few additional features. When we add to that the fact that OpenShift templates work only on OpenShift, the decision which one to use is pretty straightforward. Helm wins, unless you chose OpenShift as your Kubernetes flavor. In that case, the choice is harder to make. On the one...

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