12. Helm

Helm is a Cloud Native Foundation project to define, install and manage applications in Kubernetes.

tl;dr

Helm is a Package Manager for Kubernetes

• package multiple K8s resources into a single logical deployment unit
• … but it’s not just a Package Manager

Helm is a Deployment Management for Kubernetes

• do a repeatable deployment
• manage dependencies: reuse and share
• manage multiple configurations
• update, rollback and test application deployments