The Automation Challenge: Kubernetes Operators vs Helm Charts

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Compares using Helm for packaging and templating versus operators for lifecycle and stateful maintenance, with a live ticket‑store: two Quarkus microservices plus a frontend, Postgres DB, and Helm charts published to GitHub Pages. Demonstrates helm create with starters, values.yaml for envs, chart dependencies for a shared Postgres, upgrades and rollbacks via helm revisions, then generates an operator with operator-sdk init --plugin=helm to hand DB maintenance to an operator; operator recreates a deleted deployment automatically, showing it works.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 15:46Prototype
3. 19:09Benefits of Using Operators
4. 20:05Operators can be used to create backups or for configuring your cluster
5. 23:52From Helm Charts to Operators

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