As Fidelity Investments enthusiastically adopts containerization and orchestration through Kubernetes, the complexity of managing deployments, scaling applications, and ensuring consistency across multiple environments emerged as a significant challenge. In response to this complexity, we have successfully implemented Helm charts as an indispensable tool that automates the creation, packaging, configuration, and deployment of Kubernetes applications by combining the configuration files into a single reusable package.

This strategic move has proven to be a transformative lesson in our deployment processes. By embracing Helm, we have witnessed substantial reduction in the time to market seamlessly facilitating build and deployment phases. Furthermore, we have identified the importance of incorporating Helm templates within the micro-services architecture, which can be easily leveraged in CICD pipelines.

In this session, we will cover how Fidelity leverages Helm charts and has taken a strategic approach to not only enhance efficiency but also establish best practices for maintaining a robust and automated deployment ecosystem.