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Hands-On Kubernetes on Azure

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789536102
Pages 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan
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Gunther Lenz Gunther Lenz
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics
2. Introduction to Docker and Kubernetes 3. Kubernetes on Azure (AKS) 4. Section 2: Deploying on AKS
5. Application Deployment on AKS 6. Scaling Your Application to Thousands of Deployments 7. Single Sign-On with Azure AD 8. Monitoring the AKS Cluster and the Application 9. Operation and Maintenance of AKS Applications 10. Section 3: Leveraging Advanced Azure PaaS Services in Combination with AKS
11. Connecting an App to an Azure Database - Authorization 12. Connecting to Other Azure Services (Event Hub) 13. Securing AKS Network Connections 14. Serverless Functions 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

The helm way of installing complex applications

As you went along the previous sections, you might have thought, This is pretty repetitive and boring. I wonder if there is a way to package everything and run it in one shot. That is a valid question, and a need when deploying complex applications in production. Helm charts is becoming the de-facto standard for packaging applications.

We are going to up the game by installing a complex WordPress site complete with persistence storage. We are going to do so with just one command (not counting the helm init command).

The helm init command

On your cloud shell, type the following:

helm init

After a couple of minutes, helm should be ready.

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