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Deploying Helm Apps to Kubernetes with Waypoint and GitOps

The https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-waypoint-0-6 focused on Kubernetes and added features that support and improve the interaction process around deploying and releasing applications to a cluster. With the new Helm plugin and existing Git integration present in Waypoint, practitioners can use GitOps to automatically deploy Helm applications to their cluster whenever they make a change to their code repository.

For applications consisting of multiple individual services, this removes the one-to-one requirement between a service and the Helm commands that need to be executed to deploy the service.

Waypoint polls the repository for changes and automatically executes any build, deploy, and release processes defined in the waypoint.hcl file — no additional scripts needed.

Since Waypoint can deploy to https://www.waypointproject.io/docs/lifecycle/deploy#target-deployment-platforms, including Docker, HashiCorp Nomad, and Amazon EC2, you can apply the knowledge from the Git integration to automate your release process in a wide variety of environments.