Helm Cheat Sheet

Helm.md

Helm Cheat Sheet

# Add stable repo (similar to add-apt-repository)
$ helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/ 

# list repo
$ helm repo list

# helm repo update (similar to apt update)
$ helm repo update

# search chart (similar to apt-cache search)
$ repo="stable/jenkins"
$ helm search repo ${repo}

# search chart (list all remote stable)
$ helm search repo stable

# show installed (similar to dpkg -l)
$ helm ls

# inspect repo
$ repo="stable/jenkins"
$ helm inspect values ${repo}

How to install a Kubernetes application

$ helm inspect values ${repo} > /path/to/folder/values.yml
# edit values.yml

$ name="jenkins"
$ repo="stable/jenkins"
$ helm install ${name} ${repo} --values values.yml

Reference

1. Running Jenkins in Kubernetes Cluster using Helm
2. stable/jenkins
3. justmeandopensource/kubernetes