Helm Summit

Kubernetes provides a great and easy way to manage the life cycle of our applications. There are various options available to configure different kinds of applications. We can specify how many instances or pods we want running for our app, how we want to update it, or even pass in some configuration files needed by some apps. Now we don’t want these config files baked into our image as once the config file changes, we will have to change the image again. That’s where the amazing ConfigMap comes to the rescue. In today’s talk, I’m going to focus on how Helm provides a brilliant and necessary feature related to ConfigMaps. When a config file content is changed, we also want our deployment to get updated, and Helm provides a way to do that without having to run any additional commands! In this talk, we will demonstrate how you can achieve this. So in this world of automating everything, let’s make use of this too