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Published inJun 2020
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Gigi Sayfan
Gigi Sayfan
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Gigi Sayfan

Gigi Sayfan has been developing software for 25+ years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired ML, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors, virtual reality, and genomics. He has written production code in languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, macOS, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, containers, unorthodox user interfaces, modern web applications, and general SDLC.
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In this chapter, we took a look at Helm, the Kubernetes package manager. Helm gives Kubernetes the ability to manage complicated software composed of many Kubernetes resources with inter-dependencies. It serves the same purpose as an OS package manager. It organizes packages and lets you search charts, install and upgrade charts, and share charts with collaborators. You can develop your own charts and store them in repositories. Helm 3 is a client-side-only solution that uses CRDs to manage the status of releases, instead of the Tiller server-side component of Helm 2, which poses a lot of security issues with its default configuration.

At this point, you should be able to understand the important role that Helm serves in the Kubernetes ecosystem and community. You should be able to use it productively and even develop and share your own charts.

In the next chapter, we will look at how Kubernetes does networking at a pretty low level.

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839211256

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Gigi Sayfan

Gigi Sayfan has been developing software for 25+ years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired ML, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors, virtual reality, and genomics. He has written production code in languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, macOS, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, containers, unorthodox user interfaces, modern web applications, and general SDLC.
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