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Introduction to Helm

Course materials may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written permission of IBM.
What is Helm?

Introduction to Containers 2 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017


Helm – A package manager for Kubernetes
• What is a package manager?
 Automates the process of installing, configuring, upgrading, and removing computer programs
 Examples: Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), Homebrew, Windows Pkgmgr/PackageManagement

• Helm enables multiple Kubernetes resources to be created with a single command


 Deploying an application often involves creating and configuring multiple resources
 A Helm chart defines multiple resources as a set

• An application in Kubernetes typically consists of (at least) two resource types


 Deployment – Describes a set of pods to be deployed together
 Services – Endpoints for accessing the APIs in those pods
 Could also include ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, etc.

• A default chart for an application consists of a deployment template and a service template
 The chart creates all of these resources in a Kubernetes cluster as a set
 Rather than manually having to create each one separately via kubectl

Introduction to Containers 3 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017


Helm Terminology
• Helm
Helm installs charts into Kubernetes, creating a new release for each installation
 To find new charts, search Helm chart repositories
Chart Values
• Chart
(templates) (config)
 Templates for a set of resources necessary to run an application
 The chart includes a values file that configures the resources

• Repository
install
 Storage for Helm charts
 stable – The namespace of the hub for official charts

• Release
Kubernetes
 An instance of a chart running in a Kubernetes cluster cluster Tiller
 The same chart installed multiple times creates many releases
Release
(resources)
• Tiller
 Helm templating engine, runs in a pod in a Kubernetes cluster
 Tiller processes the chart to generate the resource manifests, then installs the release into the cluster
 Tiller stores each release as a Kubernetes config map
Introduction to Containers 4 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017
Advantages of Using Helm
• Deploy all of the resources for an application with a single command
 Makes deployment easy and repeatable Kubernetes
cluster
$ helm install <chart>
Chart install Release
• Separates configuration settings from manifest formats myapp v1 myapp r1
 Edit the values without changing the rest of the manifest
 values.yaml – Update to deploy the application differently (upgrade)
Chart upgrade rollback
myapp v2
• Upgrade a running release to a new chart version
$ helm upgrade <release> <chart>
Release
myapp r2
• Rollback a running release to a previous revision
$ helm rollback <release> <revision> delete

• Delete a running release


$ helm delete <release>
Introduction to Containers 5 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017
Installing Helm
• Helm runs as a CLI client, so is installed on your laptop

• See Installing Helm


 https://docs.helm.sh/using_helm/#installing-helm

• Options for installing Helm


1. Download the release, including the binary
− https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/releases
2. Homebrew on MacOS
− brew install kubernetes-helm
3. Installer script
− curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/helm/master/scripts/get > get_helm.sh

Introduction to Containers 6 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017

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