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Quickstart Guide
This guide covers how you can quickly get started using Helm.
Prerequisites
- You must have Kubernetes installed, and have a local configured copy
of
kubectl.
Install Helm
Download a binary release of the Helm client from the official project page.
Alternately, you can clone the GitHub project and build your own
client from source. The quickest route to installing from source is to
run make boostrap build, and then use bin/helm.
Initialize Helm and Install Tiller
Once you have Helm ready, you can initialize the local CLI and also install Tiller into your Kubernetes cluster in one step:
$ helm init
Install an Existing Chart
To install an existing chart, you can run the helm install command:
TODO: Might need instructions about repos.
$ helm install nginx-1.0.0
Released smiling-penguin
In the example above, the nginx chart was released, and the name of
our new release is smiling-penguin
Learn About The Release
To find out about our release, run helm status:
$ helm status smiling-penguin
Status: DEPLOYED
Uninstall a Release
To uninstall a release, use the helm delete command:
$ helm delete smiling-penguin
Removed smiling-penguin
This will uninstall smiling-penguin from Kubernetes, but you will
still be able to request information about that release:
$ helm status smiling-penguin
Status: DELETED
Reading the Help Text
To learn more about the available Helm commands, use helm help or type
a command followed by the -h flag:
$ helm get -h