Release Management

Part of the Helm course

Installing a chart the first time is the easy part. The real work starts afterward: a new image ships, a config value needs to change, someone bumps the replica count for Black Friday, and eventually something goes out that just does not work and needs to come back the way it was an hour ago.

A release is a specific installed instance of a chart, given a name, tracked by Helm across every change made to it. Once a release exists, you do not reinstall it to change something, you upgrade it: