Helm Charts: An Organised Way to Install Apps on a Kubernetes Cluster

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Docker Hub

Helm charts are stored in a chart repository. This repository analogy is similar to docker hub where you can pull or push images. In a chart repository, you can also pull your charts from the repository and update the repository locally for you to use the chart. The repository that hosts Helm charts is ArtifactHub. ArtifactHub is a web based application that enables finding, installing and publishing Kubernetes packages and configurations. Searching for the helm charts can be done in two ways:.

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Grafana

Let's search for one of the most commonly used charts in DevOps which is Grafana. Grafana is an interactive data visualization platform that provides charts that are put into dashboards from which insights from complex infrastructure can be analyzed. You can also query and set alerts based on the set criteria for metrics on the supported integrated data sources with grafana. Searching grafana helm chart via the terminal can be done with the following command.

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Chocolatey

Type the following commands on the Windows terminal to install helm. You can use either Scoop a command-line installer for Windows or Chocolatey which is a Package Manager for Windows to install helm.

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