Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will require the following tools:

• minikube
• kubectl
• helm
• git

We will use minikube to explore several examples throughout this chapter, so now is a good time to start your minikube environment:

$ minikube start

Once minikube has started, create a new namespace for this chapter:

$ kubectl create namespace chapter5

Throughout this chapter, we will follow several examples to gain a better understanding of how chart dependencies work in practice. Ensure that you clone the sample repository to follow along with the examples. To clone the repository, run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Managing-Kubernetes-Resources-using-Helm.git

With the repository cloned, let’s continue to the next section to begin learning about Helm chart dependencies.