2 posts tagged with "helm chart"

Background​

Helm is an application packaging and deployment tool of client side widely used in the cloud-native field. Its simple design and easy-to-use features have been recognized by users and formed its ecosystem. Up to now, thousands applications have been packaged using Helm Chart. Helm's design concept is very concise and can be summarized in the following two aspects:

1. Packaging and templating complex Kubernetes APIs and then abstracting and simplifying them into small number of parameters

2. Giving Application Lifecycle Solutions: Production, upload (hosting), versioning, distribution (discovery), and deployment.

Helm Charts are very popular that you can find almost 10K different software packaged in this way. While in today's multi-cluster/hybrid cloud business environment, we often encounter these typical requirements: distribute to multiple specific clusters, specific group distributions according to business need, and differentiated configurations for multi-clusters.

In this blog, we'll introduce how to use KubeVela to do multi cluster delivery for Helm Charts.

If you don't have multi clusters, don't worry, we'll introduce from scratch with only Docker or Linux System required. You can also refer to the basic helm chart delivery in single cluster.