>>Watch the Codefresh Live webinar at Codefresh.io/events Creating and using custom Helm charts for internal consumption is incredibly powerful. In this edition of Codefresh Live we'll go through best practices for creating, testing, and deploying Helm Charts. We'll mix custom and community charts into our application and show best practices for promoting charts into ACR Chart Repositories. You'll be surprised just how effective Helm Charts can be in a streamlined DevOps workflow.

1. Updating Kubernetes
with Helm Charts: Build, Test, Deploy
Steve Lasker, Microsoft Josh Dolitsky, Codefresh Dan Garfield, Codefresh
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2. Dan
Garfield
Chief Evangelist

3. Steve
Lasker
Principal Program manager

4. Josh
Dolitsky
Senior Software Engineer

5. Agenda
● Workflows with Helm
● Demo
● Helm Repositories
● Intro to Helm

6. HELM
The package manager for
Kubernetes
Go
Node
Postgresql
.NET

7. Helm makes
Kubernetes
apps awesome
Templating
Stop writing the same YAML over and over
Reliable Deployment
Keep all components up-to-date
Manage Dependencies
Your chart needs SQL, it knows how to get the
package.
Deployment History
Rollback the entire app and config
Package Your App
All config and images in a simple package.

8. Helm makes
Kubernetes
apps awesome
Templating
Stop writing the same YAML over and over
Reliable Deployment
Keep all components up-to-date
Manage Dependencies
Your chart needs SQL, it knows how to get the
package.
Deployment History
Rollback the entire app and config
Package Your App
All config and images in a simple package.

9. Git Docker Helm

10. Git
Dev
Registry
Prod
Registry
Docker
flow
Extra validation
For testing
And debugging

11. Git
Dev
Registry
Prod
Registry
Helm flow

12. Azure Container
Registry
● Store Helm Charts, alongside Images
● Share common authentication & control
aka.ms/acr/helm-charts

13. ACR Geo-replication
● Mange global/local
deployments as one resource
● Geo-redundant for
active-active-active failover
aka.ms/ACR/Geo-replication

14. ACR
Push images/charts
Trigger deployment

15. github.com/codefresh-io/
azure-helm-webinar

16. Demo time

17. Codefresh + Azure FTW
Key
Takeaways
Helm workflows are
similar to Docker
Workflows
Azure Container
Registry supports
Docker and Helm

18. Q ?
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Azure Container Registry
Helm Repos
aka.ms/acr/helm-repos