Debugging and Testing Helm Charts Using VS Code
Introduction Helm charts are useful to manage, install and upgrade Kubernetes applications. Helm is a developer friendly templating Kubernetes resource files based on GO templates and YAML. The templates are written using any notepads and deployed using Helm. Writing helm commands on notepad is not user friendly. Using Visual studio code we can setup a workaround that will enable to code faster and see the generated Kubernetes YAML files. The following document has the details of necessary steps and guide that will help you to debug and test your helm charts before directly installing in the Kubernetes cluster using Visual Studio Code. Download and configure Helm in windows Download the Helm.exe for windows from the link https://github.com/helm/helm/releases or https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.5.0-windows-amd64.zip . Unzip and copy the contents to some directory like 'C:\Users\<username>\Tools\Helm'. Configure the above directory URL to environment var...