Install Helm and initial start

Antoni Florit
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 min read

What is Helm?

Helm is a open source tool for managing Kubernetes charts. Charts are packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources.

Prerequisites

  • Kubernetes cluster up and running
  • Kubectl

How to install Helm?

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/helm/master/scripts/get > get_helm.sh
chmod 700 get_helm.sh
./get_helm.sh

After download and execute Helm installation is necesary to execute

helm init

For Helm is important to create a Kubernetes service account for execute RBAC files.

kubectl apply -f helm-rbac.yaml

Google’s GKE hosted Kubernetes platform enables RBAC by default. You will need to create a service 3account for tiller, and use the –service-account flag when initializing the helm server.

See Tiller and role-based access control for more information.

helm init --service-account helm

Start use helm

Antoni Florit

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