Company
Date Published
Author
Avik Kundu
Word count
3925
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Containers and microservices have transformed cloud application deployment, with Kubernetes emerging as a standard container orchestration tool since 2014. Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes, simplifies application management by packaging all necessary components into a versioned artifact known as a Helm chart, facilitating easy upgrades, rollbacks, and deletions. This tutorial guides users through deploying a Node.js application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) using Helm and CircleCI, demonstrating how to establish a CI/CD pipeline to automatically update and deploy changes. Detailed steps include prerequisites setup, cloning the Node.js application, containerizing it using Docker, and pushing the container image to Azure Container Registry (ACR). It also covers configuring Helm charts for deployment, pushing these charts to ACR, and launching an AKS cluster. The CI pipeline utilizes CircleCI to manage container builds, Helm chart updates, and installations on the AKS cluster, with the tutorial providing a comprehensive configuration for automating these processes. The tutorial concludes with accessing the deployed application on AKS, emphasizing the setup's efficiency in reflecting code changes instantly on the application URL, thus eliminating the need for manual deployments.