Helm Production Deployment Patterns

Purpose

Provide production-proven patterns for deploying Helm charts safely and reliably, including secrets management, testing strategies, deployment patterns, and upgrade procedures.

Secrets Management

Using Helm Secrets Plugin

Installation:

# Install helm-secrets plugin
helm plugin install https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets

Usage:

# Encrypt secrets file with SOPS
helm secrets enc secrets.yaml