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Generate a Helm Chart Blueprint

Explore how to generate a Helm chart blueprint by using the helm create command and understand the structure of core files and folders needed to build and deploy custom Kubernetes applications. This lesson guides you through initial chart setup to support a multi-part app deployment.

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Introduction

In this lesson we’ll learn how to become a Helm chart developer. This is an essential skill that helps us to prepare a Helm chart for any application that we build, that is not available in Artifact Hub.

We’ll build a simple Kanban application that consists of two parts, the frontend and backend. Its source code can be found on GitHub at wkrzywiec/kanban-board. For the moment we’ll be using Docker images for both of them. Here is an illustration of what we should have after this part of the course:

Kubernetes cluster after this part of the course
Kubernetes cluster after this part of the course

Helm chart structure

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