Kubernetes - ConfigMaps

Sometimes you need to add additional configurations to your running containers. Kubernetes has an object to help with this and this post will cover those ConfigMaps. ConfigMaps - The Theory Not all of our applications can be as simple as the basic nginx containers we’ve deployed earlier in this series. In some cases, we need to pass configuration files, variables, or other information to our apps. The theory for this post is pretty simple, ConfigMaps store key/value pair information in an object that can be retrieved by your containers. This configuration data can make your applications more portable. ...

February 20, 2019 · 5 min · eshanks