What Is Helm

Part of the Helm course

Welcome. This course assumes you have already met Kubernetes in our Kubernetes course (or somewhere else). If words like Deployment, Service, and manifest ring a bell, you are ready. If they do not, take the first few lessons of the Kubernetes course and come back. This first lesson has no commands. We just want the three Helm words to mean something concrete before you touch a real chart.

After you have written your fifth Deployment plus Service plus ConfigMap for "yet another web app", the shapes start to feel like they want to be a template. You have a nginx-staging.yaml, an nginx-prod.yaml, and a nginx-demo.yaml that are 95 percent identical, and you keep copy pasting between them and forgetting which is which. ...