What is Helm?
- The package manager for kubernetes, Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for kubernetes.
Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts helps you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application.
Charts are easy to create, version, share, and publish — so start using Helm and stop the copy-and-paste madness.
The latest version of Helm is maintained by the CNCF - in collaboration with Microsoft, Google, Bitnami and the Helm contributor community.
Why use Helm?
Kubernetes publishes what a production-level microservice application needs to include; when there are more and more microservices in the environment, it will be very confusing and overloaded to simply manage it manually. That's when Helm should appear.
Helm Architecture
The above picture describes the relationship between several key components of Helm, Helm (client), Tiller (server), Repository (Chart software repository), and Chart (package).
Reference documentation:
https://helm.sh/