Using Helm

Helm is a rich package management system that lets you perform all the necessary steps to manage the applications installed on your cluster. Let's roll up our sleeves and get going. We'll look at installing both Helm 2 and Helm 3, but we will use Helm 3 for all of our hands-on experiments and demonstrations.

Installing Helm

Installing Helm involves installing the client and the server. Helm is implemented in Go. The Helm 2 executable can serve as either the client or the server. Helm 3, as mentioned before, is a client-only program.

Installing the Helm client

You must have Kubectl configured properly to talk to your Kubernetes cluster because the Helm client uses the Kubectl configuration to talk to the Helm server (Tiller).

Helm provides binary releases for all platforms here:

https://github.com/helm/helm/releases

For Windows, the chocolatey package manager is the best option (and is usually up to date):

choco install kubernetes...