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Upgrade your Helm chart - Kubernetes Tutorial
From the course: Kubernetes: Package Management with Helm
Upgrade your Helm chart
- [Instructor] As an ops engineer, software upgrades are a big part of your job. Luckily, Helm has commands that let you quickly install a different version of a chart helping you with lifecycle management. You've installed the latest version of the cert-manager chart in your cluster. And we can see that version number by running the command helm ls namespace cert-manager. Right now I'm running cert-manager chart version v1.16.1. The version in your cluster is probably more recent than mine. You might notice there are two different version numbers here. The chart version and the app version. The chart version is the version of the Helm chart itself, and the application version is a version of the underlying code that gets installed and creates pods. It looks like the maintainers of cert-manager keep their version numbers in sync, but that's not true for all Helm charts. Sometimes you don't want the latest version of a Helm chart because it contains changes that break your…