Deploying a Helm chart with Lens

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to visualize your Kubernetes resources using Lens. However, you can also use Lens to manage Helm charts. Please refer to Chapter 4, Running Your First Application on EKS (the Visualizing your workloads section), for guidance on the setup of Lens.

By default, Lens will fetch available Helm repositories from the public Artifact Hub (https://artifacthub.io/) and Bitnami. As we are going to redeploy the NGINX ingress controller we deployed using the Helm Command Line Interface (CLI), we need to add a custom repository. To do this, follow these steps while referring to Figure 5.1:

1. Choose Lens | Preferences from the main toolbar.
2. Then select Kubernetes.
3. Select Add custom Helm Repo from the Kubernetes panel.
4. This will display a pop-up box, which works in the same way as the helm repo add command. Here, we are going to add the NGINX repository we used in a previous example: https://helm.nginx...