Awesome Helm

A collaborative list of awesome Helm resources.

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes, it makes deploying complex application workloads simple, helps organize the update process.

Contents

• Guides
• Repositories / hubs
• Application repositories
• Plugins
• Community

Guides

• Helm Quickstart - Official Kubernetes Quickstart guide for Helm
• Developing new charts - Official Helm guide on authoring new charts
• How to create your first helm chart - Bitnami guide on authoring your first chart
• Best practices - set of best practices for authoring chart
• Authoring awesome charts - official Helm guide on authoring Awesome Charts
• Kompose - how to translate a docker-compose file into a Helm chart

Repositories / hubs

Official Kubernetes helm repositories

• Kubernetes Helm charts stable repo
• Kubernetes Helm charts incubating repo

3rd party repositories / hubs

• Fabric8 - chart repository by Fabric8
• Kubeapps - Kubeapps helm chart hub by Bitnami

Application repositories

These usually hold a single chart or a group of connected charts. Can be more up to date than the mainstream Kubernetes repos.

• Gitlab Omnibus - an All-In-One chart for deploying Gitlab in Kubernetes
• Gitlab Cloud-native - a fresh start for Gitlab Kubernetes deployment, services are now split into their own containers
• Jupyterhub and Binderhub - charts for deploying services to run Jupyter notebooks
• Jetstack cert-manager - successor of kube-lego, automatically provision Let's Encrypt SSL certificates for services in Kubernetes, this has to be installed from source - no Helm repo so far
• VMware Harbor - VMWare's solution for a container registry
• OpenStack - various charts by the OpenStack project
• Fn Project - Fn serverless platform charts
• Lenses - charts for Lenses, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect and other components for data streaming and data integration
• Zalenium - flexible and scalable container based Selenium Grid with video recording, live preview, basic auth & dashboard

Plugins

• Helm Diff - A helm plugin that shows a diff explaing what a helm upgrade and helm rollback would change. It can also compare two separate revisions of the release.
• Helm Env - a helm plugin to show the environment variables available to a helm plugin.
• Helm Last - A helm plugin that shows the latest release interacted with. This is useful for chaining commands together like helm status $(helm last).
• Helm Local - a helm plugin to run Tiller (helm 2's server-side component) as a local daemon.
• Helm Nuke - A helm plugin that deletes and purges all releases stored by Tiller.

Community

Forums, discussion groups, SO tags.

• Helm Slack - #helm-users channel on Kubernetes Slack
• StackOverflow Kubernetes-Helm - Stack Overflow threads tagged kubernetes-helm
• StackOverflow Helm - Stack Overflow threads tagged Helm

Contributing

Contributions are most welcome!

This list is just getting started, please contribute to make it super awesome.

Check out the Contributing Guidelines.

License

awesome-helm by CodeWave is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Maintainers

Project is currently maintained, in our spare time, by codewave.eu and a growing number of Contributors!