Kubernetes

Helm is a package manager for packaging, deploying, and managing versions of Kubernetes applications. It was first developed by Deis (now Microsoft) in 2015 and joined CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) in 2018. Today, it is the most widely used deployment tool in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Much like apt or yum on Linux or Homebrew on macOS, Helm bundles complex Kubernetes manifest files into packages called Charts. This lets you install, upgrade, and roll back applications with a single command while simplifying environment-specific configuration management and dependency handling. ...

Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that Google open-sourced in 2014. It is now managed by CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) and has become the de facto standard for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Production environments typically use multi-node clusters for high availability, but a single-node cluster is enough for development, testing, and learning. This guide walks through the full process of building a single-node Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ...