Helm: How to wait for the deployment before assuming it has succeeded

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When you upgrade your application using helm what it really does is to just apply the deployments and other objects upgrades. If your new deployment fails to start for some reason (such as missing image) you won't notice it until you actually check the kubernetes cluster.

Helm install and upgrade commands include a couple of options to assist in checking the deployments: --wait and --timeout

24/02/2021