The video titled Introduction to Helm | Kubernetes Tutorial | Beginners Guide provides a comprehensive introduction to Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes. Below a summary of the key points:
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What is Helm?: Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. It allows you to bring all of your YAML files together in what's called a chart. A chart can have a name, a description, and a version. A chart groups all these YAML files together in a templates folder.
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Why use Helm?: Helm is used to manage Kubernetes YAML files, which describe everything in Kubernetes, such as deployments, pods, services, config maps, secrets, and more. Helm makes these YAML files reusable, allowing you to inject parameters into them and reuse them among many applications and microservices.
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Creating a Helm Chart: A Helm chart is a unit of deployment made up of a set of YAML files. It can be for a microservice or any software like Redis, MySQL, Promet