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Aurélie Vache

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Understanding Kubernetes: part 5 – Configmaps

Understanding Kubernetes can be difficult or time-consuming. In order to spread knowledges about Cloud technologies I started to create sketchnotes about Kubernetes. I think it could be a good way, more visual, to explain Kubernetes (and others technologies).

We continue the serie of Sketchnotes about Kubernetes, with Configmap.

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If you are interested, I published an entire illustrated book about Kubernetes, available in paperback on Amazon and in digital version on GumRoad: "Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way".

As usual, if you like theses sketchnotes, you can follow me, and tell me what do you think. I will publish others sketchs shortly :-).

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Jashua

Excuse me Aurélie, I've only ever seen examples of using the Configmap for environment values, is it possible to use Configmap values somewhere else? (say port, image, labels, etc)

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Aurélie Vache

Imagine you have an app which needed a configuration file (configuration.properties). In this conf file you have properties like an url, a port, an username..

When the app started it load the conf

You can use ConfigMap which embed this conf file and then link the ConfigMap to your pod.

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Aurélie Vache

If you want to tell to kubernetes which container image tag to run, use Kustomize for example