Helm Installation guide

What is helm?

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How to install helm

The full instructions and basic commands to get started with helm can be found here: https://docs.helm.sh/using_helm/#quickstart

For simplicity here are are few commands that you can use to install helm on your system:

macOS

brew install kubernetes-helm

Linux

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v2.9.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf helm-v2.9.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz
mv linux-amd64/helm /usr/local/bin/helm

Initialize helm and setup Tiller

helm init

Once helm is installed you should be able to run the command helm list without errors

What is an helm chart?

Charts are the packaging format used by helm. A chart is a collection of files that describe a related set of Kubernetes resources.

For example in CORD we are using charts to define every single components, such as:

You can find the full chart documentation here: https://docs.helm.sh/developing_charts/#charts