Helm (Classic) Package Manager

Install Helm

Helm is a single binary that manages deploying Charts to Kubernetes. A chart is a packaged unit of kubernetes software.

curl -Ls https://get.helm.sh | bash

Once installed, update the local cache to sync the latest available packages with the environment.

./helmc update

Search For Chart

You can now start deploying software. To find available charts you can use the search command.

For example, to deploy Redis we need to find a Redis chart.

./helmc search redis

We can identify more information with the info command.

./helmc info redis-cluster

Deploy Redis

Use the install command to deploy the chart to your cluster.

./helmc install redis-cluster

Helm will now launch the required pods. In the next step we'll verify the deployment status.

See Results

Helm deploys all the pods, replication controllers and services. The pod will be in a pending state while the Docker Image is downloaded. Once complete it will move into a running state. You'll now have a Redis Cluster running on top of Kubernetes.

Use kubectl to find out what was deployed.

kubectl get pods

kubectl get rc

kubectl get svc

cd <directory>	Change directory
ls	List directory
echo 'contents' > <file>	Write contents to a file
cat <file>	Output contents of file

i	In Command Mode	Change into Insert Mode, you can now insert and edit text in the file
esc	In Insert Mode	Change into Command Mode, you can now execute commands
:wq	In Command Mode	Save and Exit

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