helm

The Helm package manager for Kubernetes.

Synopsis

The Kubernetes package manager

To begin working with Helm, run the ‘helm init’ command:

$ helm init

This will install Tiller to your running Kubernetes cluster.It will also set up any necessary local configuration.

Common actions from this point include:

• helm search: Search for charts
• helm fetch: Download a chart to your local directory to view
• helm install: Upload the chart to Kubernetes
• helm list: List releases of charts

Environment:

• $HELM-HOME: Set an alternative location for Helm files. By default, these are stored in ~/.helm
• $HELM-HOST: Set an alternative Tiller host. The format is host:port
• $HELM-NO-PLUGINS: Disable plugins. Set HELM-NO-PLUGINS=1 to disable plugins.
• $TILLER-NAMESPACE: Set an alternative Tiller namespace (default “kube-system”)
• $KUBECONFIG: Set an alternative Kubernetes configuration file (default “~/.kube/config”)
• $HELM-TLS-CA-CERT: Path to TLS CA certificate used to verify the Helm client and Tiller server certificates (default “$HELM-HOME/ca.pem”)
• $HELM-TLS-CERT: Path to TLS client certificate file for authenticating to Tiller (default “$HELM-HOME/cert.pem”)
• $HELM-TLS-KEY: Path to TLS client key file for authenticating to Tiller (default “$HELM-HOME/key.pem”)
• $HELM-TLS-ENABLE: Enable TLS connection between Helm and Tiller (default “false”)
• $HELM-TLS-VERIFY: Enable TLS connection between Helm and Tiller and verify Tiller server certificate (default “false”)
• $HELM-TLS-HOSTNAME: The hostname or IP address used to verify the Tiller server certificate (default “127.0.0.1”)
• $HELM-KEY-PASSPHRASE: Set HELM-KEY-PASSPHRASE to the passphrase of your PGP private key. If set, you will not be prompted for the passphrase while signing helm charts

Options

      --debug                           Enable verbose output
  -h, --help                            help for helm
      --home string                     Location of your Helm config. Overrides $HELM-HOME (default "~/.helm")
      --host string                     Address of Tiller. Overrides $HELM-HOST
      --kube-context string             Name of the kubeconfig context to use
      --kubeconfig string               Absolute path of the kubeconfig file to be used
      --tiller-connection-timeout int   The duration (in seconds) Helm will wait to establish a connection to Tiller (default 300)
      --tiller-namespace string         Namespace of Tiller (default "kube-system")

SEE ALSO

• helm completion - Generate autocompletions script for the specified shell (bash or zsh)
• helm create - Create a new chart with the given name
• helm delete - Given a release name, delete the release from Kubernetes
• helm dependency - Manage a chart’s dependencies
• helm fetch - Download a chart from a repository and (optionally) unpack it in local directory
• helm get - Download a named release
• helm history - Fetch release history
• helm home - Displays the location of HELM-HOME
• helm init - Initialize Helm on both client and server
• helm inspect - Inspect a chart
• helm install - Install a chart archive
• helm lint - Examines a chart for possible issues
• helm list - List releases
• helm package - Package a chart directory into a chart archive
• helm plugin - Add, list, or remove Helm plugins
• helm repo - Add, list, remove, update, and index chart repositories
• helm reset - Uninstalls Tiller from a cluster
• helm rollback - Rollback a release to a previous revision
• helm search - Search for a keyword in charts
• helm serve - Start a local http web server
• helm status - Displays the status of the named release
• helm template - Locally render templates
• helm test - Test a release
• helm upgrade - Upgrade a release
• helm verify - Verify that a chart at the given path has been signed and is valid
• helm version - Print the client/server version information

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