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Managing Kubernetes Resources Using Helm

You're reading from   Managing Kubernetes Resources Using Helm Simplifying how to build, package, and distribute applications for Kubernetes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803242897
Length 310 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Andrew Block Andrew Block
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction and Setup FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Kubernetes and Helm 3. Chapter 2: Preparing a Kubernetes and Helm Environment 4. Chapter 3: Installing Your First App with Helm 5. Part 2: Helm Chart Development
6. Chapter 4: Scaffolding a New Helm Chart 7. Chapter 5: Helm Dependency Management 8. Chapter 6: Understanding Helm Templates 9. Chapter 7: Helm Lifecycle Hooks 10. Chapter 8: Publishing to a Helm Chart Repository 11. Chapter 9: Testing Helm Charts 12. Part 3: Advanced Deployment Patterns
13. Chapter 10: Automating Helm with CD and GitOps 14. Chapter 11: Using Helm with the Operator Framework 15. Chapter 12: Helm Security Considerations 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up your environment

In this chapter, we will create several namespaces to install Argo CD and deploy an example Helm chart across different namespaces.

Run the following commands to prepare your environment:

  1. Start minikube by running the minikube start command:
    $ minikube start
  2. Then, create a new namespace called argo, where we will later install Argo CD:
    $ kubectl create namespace argo
  3. Next, create a namespace called chapter10, where we will deploy an example Helm chart from Argo CD:
    $ kubectl create namespace chapter10
  4. Finally, create two namespaces called chapter10-dev and chapter10-prod. We will use these namespaces to demonstrate deploying a Helm chart across multiple environments using Argo CD:
    $ kubectl create namespace chapter10-dev
    $ kubectl create namespace chapter10-prod

With your minikube environment ready and your namespaces created, let’s begin by deploying Argo CD. Then, we will walk through examples of using Argo CD to deploy...

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