Helm Repository Demonstration

This GitHub repo is used to demonstrate GitHub’s ability to act as a static serving web server. GitHub provides this capability through its Pages feature.

With the Pages feature enabled, you can host your own Helm charts within it, thereby making it a Helm chart repository.

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STEP 1:

Examine the Helm repo index.yaml chart file

curl -i https://cloudacademy.github.io/helm-repo/index.yaml

STEP 2:

Add the CloudAcademy GitHub Pages enabled Helm repo to local Helm setup

helm repo add cloudacademy-gh-repo https://cloudacademy.github.io/helm-repo/

STEP 3:

List the currently configured Helm repos

helm repo list

STEP 4:

Perform a Helm repo update

helm repo update

STEP 5:

Search within the locally configured Helm repos for the cloudacademy-webapp Helm chart

helm search repo cloudacademy

STEP 6:

Install the cloudacademy-gh-repo/cloudacademy-webapp Helm chart

helm install ca-demo2 cloudacademy-gh-repo/cloudacademy-webapp

STEP 7:

Perform an HTTP GET request, send it to the newly created cluster service and confirm that the response containse the CloudAcademy DevOps 2020 v1 message stored in the values.yaml file

kubectl run --image=busybox bbox1 --rm -it --restart=Never \
-- /bin/sh -c "wget -qO- http://ca-demo2-cloudacademy-webapp"