To begin working with Helm, run the 'helm init' command:
$ helm init
This will install Tiller to your running Kubernetes cluster.
It will also set up any necessary local configuration.
Common actions from this point include:
- helm search: search for charts
- helm fetch: download a chart to your local directory to view
- helm install: upload the chart to Kubernetes
- helm list: list releases of charts
Environment:
$HELM_HOME set an alternative location for Helm files. By default, these are stored in ~/.helm
$HELM_HOST set an alternative Tiller host. The format is host:port
$HELM_NO_PLUGINS disable plugins. Set HELM_NO_PLUGINS=1 to disable plugins.
$TILLER_NAMESPACE set an alternative Tiller namespace (default "kube-system")
$KUBECONFIG set an alternative Kubernetes configuration file (default "~/.kube/config")
Usage:
helm [command]
Available Commands:
completion Generate autocompletions script for the specified shell (bash or zsh)
create create a new chart with the given name
delete given a release name, delete the release from Kubernetes
dependency manage a chart's dependencies
fetch download a chart from a repository and (optionally) unpack it in local directory
get download a named release
history fetch release history
home displays the location of HELM_HOME
init initialize Helm on both client and server
inspect inspect a chart
install install a chart archive
lint examines a chart for possible issues
list list releases
package package a chart directory into a chart archive
plugin add, list, or remove Helm plugins
repo add, list, remove, update, and index chart repositories
reset uninstalls Tiller from a cluster
rollback roll back a release to a previous revision
search search for a keyword in charts
serve start a local http web server
status displays the status of the named release
template locally render templates
test test a release
upgrade upgrade a release
verify verify that a chart at the given path has been signed and is valid
version print the client/server version information
Flags:
--debug enable verbose output
-h, --help help for helm
--home string location of your Helm config. Overrides $HELM_HOME (default "/Users/rimas/.helm")
--host string address of Tiller. Overrides $HELM_HOST
--kube-context string name of the kubeconfig context to use
--tiller-connection-timeout int the duration (in seconds) Helm will wait to establish a connection to tiller (default 300)
--tiller-namespace string namespace of Tiller (default "kube-system")
Use "helm [command] --help" for more information about a command. one
Instead of presuming that bash is installed at /bin/bash, use `$PATH`. Official [bash docker container](https://hub.docker.com/_/bash/) installs bash at `/usr/local/bin` and recommends the use of `env`
Currently the bash script that installs Helm is hard-coded to use
openssl sha command but some distros like Debian 9 only have sha1.
Since the popular current distros have sha1 we can switch to that.
Closes(#2859)
If the execution user is already the root user, this avoids requireing
sudo to be installed within the environment. Which might helo in CI
environments.
This adds 'scripts/get`, which is a bash script for fetching and
installing the Helm client. It has the following features:
- It uses the GitHub API to discover the latest release
- It downloads the SHA256 checksum and verifies the binary using it
- It does basic tests on the installation
Matthew Fisher