Getting Started¶

If you are new to Kubernetes, here you can find a guide to common Kubernetes concepts that you will need to deploy your first application.

Command-line Tool¶

First you need to setup the kubernetes CLI tool called kubectl as stated in the main requirements section, check kubectl overview for more information (do not necessarily go through all the details in here, but just a general overview to get yourself familiar with kubectl).

General Concepts¶

Here you can find an introduction to the main components needed to deploy and run your first Kubernetes workload: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/

Networking¶

While the above step explains how a container should be deployed, it does not yet allow accessing it from the internet, here is how the container can be exposed and selected for receiving requests:

More Configurations¶

The following are some important configuration concepts that your application will need to run:

you can add environment variables to access inside the application: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/define-environment-variable-container/
configure your sensitive credentials with secrets: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/
manage how much resources your application can use: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/

Package Management¶

Now that you know about all of these kubernetes resources, it's time to tie everything together with Helm, the package manager.

You can find why we recommend using Helm to deploy your application here
Tutorial for creating a helm chart: https://helm.sh/docs/chart_template_guide/getting_started/
Introduction on Helm Values and how to use them: https://helm.sh/docs/chart_template_guide/values_files/