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Create a new Helm chart from the command line

Create a new Helm chart from the command line - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Create a new Helm chart from the command line

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- [Instructor] In the last chapter, you got hands-on experience installing the cert manager chart in your cluster. In this chapter, you'll learn how to create your own Helm chart. Helm has a command that will generate a template of a Helm chart for you, and each chart you create will have a predictable set of directories and files. Let me show you how to generate a new Helm chart. First, let's make a new directory called helm-course, and let's change into that directory. We're going to call our first custom Helm chart first-chart, and we'll create it with this command, helm create first-chart. Let's take a peek at what Helm generated with ls first-chart. I see two files and two directories, which we will explore more in a moment. These boilerplate files contain everything you need to create a working application that can be deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. The Helm command line interface can generate a boilerplate Helm chart template with the command help create. And in the next…

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