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Helm

Description: Helm is a tool for managing Kubernetes charts. K8s charts are K8S packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources.
Documentation: https://helm.sh/docs
- Provide a Helm glossary of the top 40 Helm concepts sorted by the most commonly used. For each concept include a brief description and the URL for the Helm official documentation. Answer using MediaWiki format.

The common meaning of helm is a ship's steering mechanism; see tiller and ship's wheel.

“Helm is a tool that streamlines installing and managing Kubernetes applications. Think of it like apt/yum/homebrew for Kubernetes.”

“Helm has two parts: a Helm client (helm) and a Helm server (tiller)
Helm Tiller runs inside of your Kubernetes cluster, and manages releases (installations) of your charts.
Helm runs on your laptop, CI/CD, or wherever you want it to run.
Charts are Helm packages that contain at least two things:
- A description of the package (Chart.yaml)
- One or more Kubernetes templates, which contain Kubernetes manifest files
Charts can be stored on disk, or fetched from remote chart repositories (like Debian packages or RedHat packages”

“Binary downloads of the Helm client can be found on the Releases page: https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/latest. Unpack the helm binary and add it to your PATH and you are good to go!

If you want to use a package manager: