How to create your first custom Helm Chart

Nidhi
5 min readFeb 24, 2021

In this blog, we will explore basics of helm and how to create a custom helm chart.

Prerequisite:

  1. Helm should be installed

Agenda:

  1. Why Helm ?
  2. What is Helm ?
  3. Helm basic commands
  4. How Helm communicates with your Kubernetes Cluster
  5. How to find chart’s details
  6. Create a custom helm chart

How Kubernetes deployment works ?

In Kubernetes, if you have to deploy any application then at a minimum you need to create a these below components

  • secrets for database and admin console authentication
  • A ConfigMap for externalized database configuration
  • services for networking
  • A PersistentVolumeClaim for database storage
  • A StatefulSet for deploying the database in a stateful fashion
  • A Deployment for deploying the frontend

To create all these components you need to create a yaml file and provide all the configuration inside that. Maintaining this can be a tedious work…

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