Working with Helm
Helm (https://helm.sh and https://github.com/helm) is an application package manager for Kubernetes. You can compare it with apt
and yum
for Linux. It helps to manage Kubernetes using charts, which define, install, and upgrade the application you want to deploy on Kubernetes.
There are many charts available in Helm's GitHub repository and Microsoft, which is one of the biggest contributors to this project, also provides a repository with examples.
Installing Helm
If you are on an Ubuntu system, you have two choices—you can install Helm with a snap
package or just download the binary from https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/releases. Using the binary works for every Linux distribution, and the snap
repository doesn't always have the latest version of Helm. So, let's use https://github.com/helm/helm/releases to find the latest release of Helm and change x
in the helm-vx.x.x-linux-amd64.taz.gz
filename accordingly:
cd /tmp wget https...