Helm chart provides a couple of ways to access or pass environment variables into the templates –set values.yaml But before you start reading the article let’s make some baseline. In this article, I have created only one chart helloworld. So I will be taking the same hellworld helm chart to pass the …

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In Helm v3 you must use release name along with chart name in the command otherwise it will result into the following errors - Error 1- Helm install unknown flag --name Error 2- Error: must either provide a name or specify --generate-name Lets look at Error 1 - Caused by incorrect use of ´–name' flag This …

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Debugging and troubleshooting Helm Template in the complex production environment can be really daunting if you do not use helm install --dry-run --debug or helm template command for debugging the Helm Templates. helm install --dry-run --debug :- It will validate and verify your chart by connecting to kubernetes api …

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In this article we are going to see how to fix - Error create failed to create Secret sh.helm.release.v1.demoChart.v1 is invalid metadata.name Invalid value sh.helm.release.v1.demoChart.v1 a DNS-1123 subdomain must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters - or ., and must start and end with an alphanumeric …

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December 04, 2020 Kubernetes is deprecating Docker support and how should you prepare for it? As of December 02, 2020 Kubernetes has announced that going forward Kubernetes is going to deprecate Docker as their preferred container runtime environment. In the DevOps community Docker is considered as a backbone when it …

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In this article we are going to look how can we convert Kubernetes YAMLs into Helm Chart YAMLs. Objective 1 : - At first we are going to create simple Kubernetes deployment(k8s-deployment.yaml)` and in that deployment we are going to deploy a microservice application. Objective 2 : - Secondly we are going to `create …

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In this tutorial, we are going to install WordPress with MariaDB using the Helm Chart on Kubernetes cluster. With this installation, we are going to see - How we can upgrade as well as rollback the Helm Chart release of WordPress. This complete setup inherited the benefits of the Kubernetes .i.e. scalability and …

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Helm is feature rich framework for Kubernetes and it has one more pluggable feature know as Plugins. Helm Charts are build on the principle of pluggable component. Hence Helm community maintains lots of additional plugin to ease out day to day operations. You can check list of plugins here - Helm Chart Plugins In this …

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Helm charts are configuration ymls which are used for managing the Kubernetes resources. In the production environment where you are managing lots of Kubernetes resources then Helm Chart can be very helpful to manage those Kubernetes resources because managing each Kubernetes resource can be a little cumbersome and …

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In this article we are going to focus on Setting up CI/CD Jenkins pipeline for kubernetes. We will be using GitHub, Docker, DockerHub, Jenkins and Kubernetes Cluster to achieve this. For the complete lab session we are going to setup every component from scratch and for that we will be using Vagrant for provisioning …

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