Helm - Making Installs a Breeze

The pace of technological development is faster than it ever has been before.?Development, IT and Network infrastructure teams are constantly under pressure to increase the speed at which new applications are deployed and scaled out reliably.???

One of the challenges in the process is often the time required to build out virtual instances, operating systems and the base level software packages necessary for top layer applications to function.?Quite often, small nuances like kernel variations and runtime environments can cause behavioral differences between development, test and production environments. Another challenge is the constant demand from top level management to bring project costs down as well as the need to apply and rollback updates efficiently.

The shift to containerization is helping to address these and other common roadblocks, which is a major reason why Primal Technologies has moved toward containerized applications using Kubernetes. This shift is allowing our customers to deploy our applications such as Visual Voicemail, SMS, MMS, EIR and Prepaid OCS faster and more efficiently.???

Deploying an application using Kubernetes does initially sound like a major obstacle. Pods, replicasets, services, deployments, storage pvcs, load balancers, etc.; these all have to be managed through complex YAML manifests. How do we deploy these things consistently from site to site with minimal effort?????

Introducing Primal installs using HELM

Helm?is an application package manager specifically designed for Kubernetes deployments. It simplifies installs tremendously through the use of helm-charts. These charts are essentially easy to use application templates allowing users to deploy applications with minimal effort. The key benefits of Helm include:

• Deployment Speed – Integration engineers now just need to download the Helm Chart for the desired Primal application, run a single command and they instantly have a Kubernetes cluster ready to go.
• Easy Application Configuration – Helm charts come with prebuilt configurations with a single values, yaml?that can be edited to change key default settings.?This eliminates the need of having to parse through layers of complex yaml manifests to find relevant configuration parameters.
• Application Testing – Helm charts come with built-in scripts designed by our application engineers to simplify the testing process.

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About Primal Technologies Inc.

With headquarters in Toronto, Canada, Primal’s mission is to provide the best enriched features and functionality to wireless consumers and thus offer value to them and their wireless provider. The company’s competitive edge has always been to install efficiently with minimal engineering disruption. The Primal team also has the skillset to dynamically integrate a solution in an environment that may not be able to change its existing IT infrastructure.

To learn more about our product offerings drop us an email at [email protected] or visit us at www.primaltech.com.