Helm Chart Writing and Private Repository Management
Why Helm? Managing K8s applications with bare kubectl apply -f works at small scale, but as environments multiply (dev/staging/prod) and services grow, problems quickly surface: Hardcoded configuration: Each environment has its own YAML file with image tags, replica counts, and resource limits hardcoded. Changing a single value means editing ten files. No version management: Upgrades and rollbacks rely on manual records—no way to know what version was last deployed. No reusability: Deploying Redis and MySQL requires two completely different YAML sets with no way to templatize....