How To Get Notified On New Helm Chart Release With Nova?

Madokai
CodeX
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6 min readJan 31, 2022

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Kubernetes is the most widely used orchestration platform in the world. This platform is becoming a standard in the DevOps world. His popularity has led to the emergence of many projects at different scales to facilitate and optimize the management of internal Kubernetes resources, Helm is a good example.

Helm is the package manager of the Kubernetes universe. It is used by most of the DevOps community for its structuring and ease of YAML file templatization needed to define the Kubernetes resources to create. Like any package manager, It also facilitates the lifecycle of artifacts created by the simplicity of managing the versioning of these.

Lifecycle obviously means supervision and automation of updates. With Kubernetes having a fast lifecycle based on a release every three months, it is expected to set up and follow a process of sustained updating of the platform and its resources to avoid depreciation and misconfiguration. Helm Charts, in particular, require special attention in this process.

Important Considerations

There is no single recipe for setting up a management procedure to update the platform or its ecosystem.

Nevertheless, several considerations must be taken into account:

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