Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. This guide covers how you can quickly get started using Helm. Obviously, you must have Kubernetes installed.
Install Helm
The Helm project provides two ways to fetch and install Helm: from the binary releases or from script. These are the official methods to get Helm releases. In addition to that, the Helm community provides methods to install Helm through different package managers (unfortunately there are no packages for CentOS).
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Initialize a Helm Chart Repository
Once you have Helm ready, you can add a chart repository. One popular starting location is the official Helm stable charts
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$ helm search repo stable NAME CHART VERSION APP VERSION DESCRIPTION stable/acs-engine-autoscaler 2.2.2 2.1.1 DEPRECATED Scales worker nodes within agent pools stable/aerospike 0.2.8 v4.5.0.5 A Helm chart for Aerospike in Kubernetes stable/airflow 4.1.0 1.10.4 Airflow is a platform to programmatically autho... stable/ambassador 4.1.0 0.81.0 A Helm chart for Datawire Ambassador # ... and many more |
Install an Example Chart
Let's briefly see a couple of basic commands. To install a chart, you can run the helm install command. Helm has several ways to find and install a chart, but the easiest is to use one of the official stable charts
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