Helm for Continuous Delivery of Serverless Applications on Kubernetes

Authors: Anila Gogineni

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14880986

Short DOI: https://doi.org/g8494n

Country: USA

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Abstract: This paper focuses on exploring the utilization of Helm in enabling coantinuous delivery of serverless applications that run on the Kubernetes. Helm helps in covering a package manager for Kubernetes that makes the packaging of serverless architecture more solid with the template Helm charts. By using these charts, developers are able to consolidate and orchestrate deployment pipelines over different environments. The problem addressed in the study is related to real-world issues of serverless applications, focusing on how serverless technologies have to work with Kubernetes, issues with multi-environment configuration, scaling, and dependency injection. It further details how Helm operates to overcome these issues and effectively interface with advanced CI/CD systems including Jenkins, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD. This paper also provides architectural recommendations that make Helm more suitable to serve in serverless orchestration, focusing on the scalability, reliability, and performance. Also, it showcases the techniques for extending the helm to meet the peculiarities of serverless technologies, such as OpenFaaS and Knative. These considerations can be supported by comparing the performance of Helm with the real-world use cases and marking its importance in increasing the deployment performance and reliability. This work, therefore, proposes the use of Helm-driven pipelines to fulfill the increasing demand for dependable and standardized tooling in serverless app development.

Keywords: Helm, Kubernetes, Serverless Applications, CI/CD Pipelines, Helm Charts, Resource Scaling, Prometheus, Grafana, DevOps, Application Monitoring.

Paper Id: 232138

Published On: 2021-12-09

Published In: Volume 9, Issue 6, November-December 2021

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