stbenjam Deploy
Handles deployment of containerized applications to Kubernetes using Helm charts and environment-specific value overrides.
When to Use This Skill
Use when deploying or updating services in staging or production environments.
Implementation Steps
Step 1: Validate
Run helm lint charts/ to verify the chart is syntactically valid.
Check that all required values are defined:
image.repositoryandimage.tagreplicaCountresources.limits
Step 2: Build and Push
Build the container image and push to the registry:
docker build -t $REGISTRY/$APP:$TAG .
docker push $REGISTRY/$APP:$TAG
Step 3: Deploy
Run helm upgrade --install with the target namespace:
helm upgrade --install $APP charts/ \
-f charts/values.yaml \
-f charts/values-$ENV.yaml \
-n $NAMESPACE --wait
Step 4: Verify
Check rollout status and health endpoints:
kubectl rollout status deployment/$APP -n $NAMESPACE
curl -sf https://$APP.$DOMAIN/health