Manage Kubernetes application complexity with Helm

Manage Kubernetes application complexity with Helm

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  Managing complexity in Kubernetes with
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  Who am I? @AnnieTalvasto Techand startup community oKubernetes & CNCF meetup co-organizer oProducer and organizer of IglooConf & PolarConf, the biggest Azure- only events in the Nordics oCo-host of Cloudgossip podcast oWorked as marketing professional, startup coach etc. at companies such as UpCloud, Microsoft, HiQ and others
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  What is Helm?
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  Helm Helm is maintainedby the CNCF - in collaboration with Microsoft, Google, Bitnami and the Helm contributor community. Helm started as a Kubernetes project, but graduated to be a standalone CNCF project in the incubating stage. Incubating stage is the middle tier of CNCF
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  Helm Specific for Helm2: Helm has two parts: a client (helm) and a server (tiller) Tiller runs inside of your Kubernetes cluster, and manages releases (installations) of your charts. Helm 3 – “everything” will change :D (client only architecture)
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  Charts Think of itlike the Kubernetes equivalent of a Homebrew formula, an Aptitude package, or a Yum RPM file. Charts are Helm packages that contain at least two things: A description of the package (Chart.yaml) One or more templates, which contain Kubernetes manifest files (yaml files contains templates, when rendered becomes a proper object) Charts can be stored on disk, or fetched from remote chart repositories.
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  Helm.sh tells:
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  So, in anutshell: Helm makes your life easier!
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  Who here likes writing dockerfiles?
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  Why not letthe machines do it? 
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  Time for a demo!
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  Demo: Easily deploy complex application (wordpress)to Kubernetes using a helm chart
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  Installing Helm: What doyou need?
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  Installing Helm Package manager: -Homebrew - Snap - Chocolatey Manual installs: - Download binaries from Githutb
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  So, then? After downloadingrun “helm init” to initialize Helm client and Tiller to your running Kubernetes cluster. It will also set up any necessary local configuration. Note that you need to have an a running Kubernetes cluster and Kubectl set up. Depending on your setup, permission changes for your Kubernetes installation might be needed.
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  Success!
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  Helm commands First Helmcommands: helm search: search for charts helm fetch: download a chart to your local directory to view helm install: upload the chart to Kubernetes helm list: list releases of charts
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  Tada! Neat, wasn’t it! Thankyou!