The Automation Challenge: Kubernetes Operators vs Helm Charts • Ana-Maria Mihalceanu • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia February 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu Ana-Maria Mihalceanu - Co-founder of Bucharest Software Craftsmanship Community @ammbra1508 ABSTRACT Working with Kubernetes for some time or you just started your journey? If you love automation and dislike having to perform repetitive tasks manually, you have come across concepts of Helm charts and Kubernetes operators. Although they solve similar types of problems, they are not exactly interchangeable tools, but rather complementary. During this session, Ana-Maria will highlight which to use and when by sharing several code based examples and lessons [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:47 Some k8s features 03:53 Microservices – k8s 04:20 The story of a microservice 07:20 Kubernetes package manager 08:28 demo – Helm show time 15:32 Helm advantages 17:34 Distinctive Helm aspects 19:47 Next steps 20:32 What happens at system maturity? 21:13 Benefits of using operators 23:23 What's next? 24:35 Create an operator? 25:14 Final view 25:46 From Helm charts to operators 25:54 Publish Helm charts to a repo 27:05 Create operator from Helm charts 28:22 Takeaways 29:47 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.eu/february-2021/sessions/1675/the-automation-challenge-kubernetes-operators-vs-helm-charts RECOMMENDED BOOKS Jason Dobies & Joshua Wood • Kubernetes Operators • https://amzn.to/3BfOQzy Bilgin Ibryam & Roland Huß • Kubernetes Patterns • https://amzn.to/3hdA5X8 Sam Newman • Monolith to Microservices • https://amzn.to/2Nml96E Sam Newman • Building Microservices • https://amzn.to/3dMPbOs Ronnie Mitra & Irakli Nadareishvili • Microservices: Up and Running• https://amzn.to/3c4HmmL Mitra, Nadareishvili, McLarty & Amundsen • Microservice Architecture • https://amzn.to/3fVNAb0 Liz Rice • Container Security • https://amzn.to/3oU4iJe Liz Rice • Kubernetes Security • https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/kubernetes-security/9781492039075 Brendan Burns, Joe Beda & Kelsey Hightower • Kubernetes: Up and Running • https://amzn.to/3wrtwlp Chris Richardson • Microservices Patterns • https://amzn.to/2SOnQ7h John Arundel & Justin Domingus • Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3hKZvI5 Michael Hausenblas & Stefan Schimanski • Programming Kubernetes • https://amzn.to/3qTvKch https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #Kubernetes #k8s #HelmCharts #Helm #CloudNative #Microservices #Docker #DockerFile #AnaMariaMihalceanu CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1