helm.md

Deploying packaged applications to Kubernetes

Helm

• Application packaging for Kubernetes
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/helm
  • https://github.com/helm

charts

• An application packaged for Kubernetes
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/charts

tiller

• Cluster service for managing deployed charts

helm cli

• Local tool to interact with tiller

monocular

• UI for listing available charts
  • https://kubeapps.com/
• Can be hosted on the cluster
  • https://github.com/helm/monocular

Example

Setup

• Install helm locally
  • https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/blob/master/docs/install.md
• Install tiller on the cluster
  • helm init
• Wait for tiller to deploy on the cluster
  • kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -w