Helm Charts Demystified: What They Actually Do and When to Skip Them

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Everybody installs things on Kubernetes the same way. You find the project, you scroll to the README, and there it is: helm repo add, helm install, done. Three commands and a workload appears, fully wired with services, config maps, secrets and a horizontal pod autoscaler you didn’t ask for. Helm has become the default, and like most defaults it’s reached for without much thought about what it actually is or whether you need it.

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Helm Charts Demystified: What They Actually Do and When to Skip Them