Lab8 (Spring Boot/K8S): Deploy a Spring Boot application on Kubernetes using Helm Chart

In this story, we’ll explore the basic concepts of using Helm to deploy a Spring Boot application on Kubernetes cluster.

· Overview
∘ What is Helm?
∘ Helm Key Concepts
∘ Why use Helm?
∘ Helm Chart Structure
∘ The Chart.yaml File
· Deploy a Spring Boot application in Kubernetes using Helm-Chart
∘ Setting up Helm
∘ Create a Helm chart
∘ Customizing the Helm Chart
∘ Deploy the Helm Chart to Kubernetes
∘ Validate the Helm Chart
∘ Deploy the Helm Chart
∘ Delete resources
· Conclusion
· References

This series of stories shows how to use Kubernetes in the Spring ecosystem. We work with a Spring Boot API and Minikube to have a lightweight and fast development environment similar to production.

• Lab1 (Spring Boot/K8S): Deploy Spring Boot application on Kubernetes
• Lab2 (Spring Boot/K8S): Kubernetes health probes with Spring Boot