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Applications deployed through Kubernetes often require access to databases, services, and other resources located externally, so they need a way to securely store sensitive data. Secrets help organize and distribute sensitive information across a cluster. This tutorial explains what secrets are and how to use them.

Helm is a package manager that features all the necessary commands for easy app management in a Kubernetes cluster. This tutorial covers all the important Helm operations and provides examples to help you learn its syntax and features.

There are several methods for deploying Elasticsearch and the rest of the ELK stack on Kubernetes. Using Helm and helm charts is the most straightforward one. This tutorial lists steps to install Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Metricbeat in Kubernetes using a helm chart template.

Testing Web UI clients whose API backend runs in a local Kubernetes cluster requires HTTPS access. This tutorial explains how to obtain HTTPS access by generating a self-signed certificate using cert-manager, CFSSL, Easy-RSA, and OpenSSL methods.

This step-by-step tutorial teaches you how to delete a Helm deployment from a specific namespace and how to remove a Kubernetes cluster namespace.

Helm automates application deployment to Kubernetes clusters. Helm provides a templating approach to deployment, which makes the process of going from testing to production a smoother experience.

When upgrading from a failed deployment, Helm will produce a "helm has no deployed releases" error.
This tutorial covers different ways you can fix this error.

Helm charts are used to collect and package Kubernetes resources into simple and efficient clusters.
In this tutorial, learn how you can incorporate environment variables into your Kubernetes apps by using Helm charts.

Helm releases get updated and so do the values. Each change of Helm values is tracked. Learn how to get Helm values for a Helm release in this tutorial, how to find a specific revision version and the possible output formats.

VirtaulBox and VMware are two of the most popular virtualization platforms that allow you to run multiple virtual machines on a single server. Learn about how they differ and which one is best for you in this head-to-head comparison.