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Sudesh Girdhari

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HELM its not just for ships!

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Many of the teams I support are moving from native Kubernetes package management to Helm . While I love nautical analogies, Helm’s name refers to its creation of Charts, which are useful for container deployments and repository creation.

A Chart is a Helm package. It contains all of the resource definitions necessary to run an application, tool, or service inside of a Kubernetes cluster. Think of it like the Kubernetes equivalent of a Homebrew formula, an Apt dpkg, or a Yum RPM file.

A more useful way to think about this is surfaced in the KubeApp.com repository

https://hub.kubeapps.com

If your a fan of “How things work” the diagram below is very helpful to explain the Helm deployment process.

Sample Helm deployment architecture

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