How to create your first custom Helm Chart

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…