Installing the Bitnami standalone NGINX web server Chart involves us using the helm install command.
When we install using Helm, we need to provide a deployment name, or a random one will be assigned to the deployment automatically.
How can you use Helm to deploy the bitnami/nginx chart?
HINT: Use the helm utility to install the bitnami/nginx chart and specify the name mywebserver for the Kubernetes deployment. Consult the helm install documentation or run the helm install --help
command to figure out the syntax
helm install --name mywebserver bitnami/nginx
Once you run this command, the output confirms the types of k8s objects that were created as a result:
In the following kubectl command examples, it may take a minute or two for each of these objects’ DESIRED and CURRENT values to match; if they don’t match on the first try, wait a few seconds, and run the command again to check the status.
The first object shown in this output is a Deployment. A Deployment object manages rollouts (and rollbacks) of different versions of an application.
You can inspect this Deployment object in more detail by running the following command:
kubectl describe deployment mywebserver
The next object shown created by the Chart is a Pod. A Pod is a group of one or more containers.
To verify the Pod object was successfully deployed, we can run the following command:
kubectl get pods -l app.kubernetes.io/name=nginx
And you should see output similar to:
The third object that this Chart creates for us is a Service The Service enables us to contact this NGINX web server from the Internet, via an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB).
To get the complete URL of this Service, run:
kubectl get service mywebserver-nginx -o wide
That should output something similar to:
Copy the value for EXTERNAL-IP, open a new tab in your web browser, and paste it in.
It may take a couple minutes for the ELB and its associated DNS name to become available; if you get an error, wait one minute, and hit reload.
When the Service does come online, you should see a welcome message similar to:
Congrats! You’ve now successfully deployed the NGINX standalone web server to your EKS cluster!