Helm chart is a package manager that is used for deployment in Kubernetes. It helps in deploying the kubernetes resources and helps in maintaining a package life cycle. Helm is used for managing artifacts that can be refered later for any deployment related issue troubleshooting. Helm package manager comes with its cli for the deployment in the CI/CD pipelines.
Helm charts has a large community of contributers where we can find many ready to consume charts for deployment on the kubernetes cluster. You can find more about the community at https://helm.sh/community/
Some of the most commonly used commands for managing and doing deployments in helms as given below:
Below are the description about the commonly used helm comands with their description below:
Helm install command is used for installing the helm charts into the kubernetes cluster.
Helm upgrade command is used for upgrading the existing helm package in the repository.
helm history shows all the revisions for the helm chart.
Helm rollback command is used to rollback to the previous version of the chart.
Helm list command is used to list all the available helm charts in the kubernetes cluster.
helm search command is used to search for a specific word in the helm repository.