We live in a time of renaissance for what is now called devops maturity. It has never been easier to develop and deploy to different environments complex, distributed systems of computer software. A lot of this ease is courtesy of a technology known as Kubernetes (K8s) which is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. But Kubernetes by itself doesn’t complete the picture. There are also some other popular open source software systems that contribute greatly to this renaissance.

Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts help you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. Helm helps you provision and deploy your services in a Kubernetes cluster but how can you easily provision the cluster itself? The best way to do that today is by using Terraform which is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) software tool that provides a consistent Command Line Interface (CLI) workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.

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