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:
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