Getting Started with ConfigMaps

The Need of the Hour

Note: ConfigMaps allow us to keep configurations separate from application images. Such separation is useful when other alternatives are not a good fit.

Almost every application can be fine-tuned through configuration. Traditional software deployment methods fostered the use of configuration files. However, we won’t discuss those methods. Instead, we’ll look at advanced, distributed, and immutable deployments through Kubernetes schedulers.

Although newer technologies may often require new processes and fundamentally different architecture, we can’t just ...