The rise of Kubernetes-as-a-service services has significantly simplified the setup and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters, leading to an increasing number of enterprises migrating their applications to Kubernetes. However, migrating complex applications to Kubernetes takes a lot of work. Traditional deployment methods typically involve managing numerous YAML files, each representing different components of an application, such as services, deployments, and volumes. This approach can be error-prone, mainly because it may require separate manifest files for each environment. For instance, development environments usually have fewer replicas or even less powerful machines compared to production environments to be more cost-effective, which leads to duplication and increases maintenance complexity. Additionally, manually handling updates and rollbacks of applications might necessitate keeping track of the deployed version and can become challenging with updates targeting different environments. This is where Helm comes in to help. It simplifies the Kubernetes application definition, deployment, and update by packaging an application’s stack into a singular, manageable unit called Chart.
In this article, we’ll dig into a comprehensive exploration of Helm Charts. In this article, we’ll view the differences between private and community charts, see how to…
