Install Helm CLI

Kubernetes Helm

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that packages multiple Kubernetes resources into a single logical deployment unit called Chart.

Helm is a tool that streamlines installing and managing Kubernetes applications. Think of it like apt/yum/homebrew for Kubernetes. We will use Helm during the workshop to install other components out from the list of available charts.

Helm helps you to:

  • Achieve a simple (one command) and repeatable deployment
  • Manage application dependency, using specific versions of other application and services
  • Manage multiple deployment configurations: test, staging, production and others
  • Execute post/pre deployment jobs during application deployment
  • Update/rollback and test application deployments

Install the Helm CLI

Before we can get started configuring Helm, we’ll need to first install the command line tools that you will interact with. To do this, run the following:

export DESIRED_VERSION=v3.9.4
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 | bash

Note we are using a version relatively old of Helm and the same will apply to the load of the stable repo This is temporary required to load kube-ops-view.

We can verify the version

helm version --short

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