Supercharge Your Kustomize Workflow with Helm Charts

In this video, I will show you how to take your Kustomize skills to the next level by integrating Helm charts.
With Kustomize, you can work with local or remote helm chart repositories with ease, further increasing the scope of what you can achieve with your kustomize workflows.
We cover the following:
- Installing helm.
- Working with remote helm chart repositories.
- Working with local helm charts.
- Long term support for helm charts in kustomize.
Resources:
- Demo code repo: github.com/galonge/udemy-kust...
- Kustomize docs: kubectl.docs.kubernetes.io/re...
- Installing helm: helm.sh/docs/intro/install/
- Artifacts hub: artifacthub.io/
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To learn more about kubernetes configuration management with Kustomize, check out my Udemy course here and join the community: www.udemy.com/course/kustomiz...

[@bogdana3993]

If you use the helmchart in the kustomization.yaml and do a kubectl apply -k, does it use helm in the background? can you manage resources with helm?

[@galonge]

Hi, kustomize has a `--enable-helm` flag you can use whenever you use the helmchart convenience key in a kustomization file. Without this, your helm chart will likely not be processed. Such flag isn't available if you are using `kubectl apply -k`, in this case you may need to first preprocess your kustomization files before using apply. An example could be `kustomize build manifests/ --enable-helm | kubectl apply -f - ` parsing the output of kustomize build to kubectl for an apply phase. Hope that helps.