Name: What is Helm?
Uploaded: 2019-12-18T17:13:02.000Z
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Description: What is Helm?

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Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery platform with a range of cluster management and deployment management features, originally developed at Netflix.

Spinnaker

Release Management

Netflix

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux Systems. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Podman is open source and free, supported and maintained by the Containers organization, with code available from GitHub.

Podman.io

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The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

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Nomad, from HashiCorp, is presented as a simple, flexible, and production-grade workload orchestrator that enables organizations to deploy, manage, and scale any application, containerized, legacy or batch jobs, across multiple regions, on private and public clouds. Nomad's workload support enables an organization to run containerized, non containerized, and batch applications through a single workflow. Nomad is available open source, or via a supported enterprise plan.

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AWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service that aims to make it easy for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their software development process. CodeArtifact can be configured to automatically fetch software packages and dependencies from public artifact repositories so developers have access to the latest versions.

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Helm is an open source Kubernetes package manager.

The Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise, acquired by Mirantis in November 2019)aims to let users ship code faster. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine gives users one set of APIs and tools to deploy, manage, and observe secure-by-default, certified, batteries-included Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure: public cloud, private cloud, or bare metal.

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A software repository or "repo" is a location where software packages are stored and managed.

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What is Helm?

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Ability to create

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HashiCorp Consul

HashiCorp Vault

We use Helm in some Kubernetes-based environments. Mainly as a solution for deploying existing solutions that come to us based on Helm. I can give as an example the NoSQL database stacks we use that are fully implemented in our containerized environments via Helm charts. This model greatly facilitates updates and customizations that eventually become necessary. 

Product Usage

We use Helm in some Kubernetes-based environments. Mainly as a solution for deploying existing solutions that come to us based on Helm. I can give as an example the NoSQL database stacks we use that are fully implemented in our containerized environments via Helm charts. This model greatly facilitates updates and customizations that eventually become necessary.

Pros and Cons

Infrastructure duplication
Customization of environments
Applying of security updates

Things done well

Customization of helm charts is not a trivial thing
Too much dependent on community components.
Don't manage as should, sensitive values (depending on third apps)

Things done poorly

If you need to automate the deployment of environments in Kubernetes and these environments should be easily replicable in other regions of your cloud provider or even in other cloud providers, then this is the tool for you. Just be prepared for a certain degree of complexity when creating the charts.

Scalability
Automation
Keeping infrastructure as a code.

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Speed on deployments
Source code as a documentation of our environment
Reliability since Helm is a consolidated tool with a vast of resources

Return on Investment

We have a natural trending to use what is a reference in its space and Helm has being leader in its area for a long time. Since it has all features we need didn't make sense to us to invest time on researching and testing other alternatives, so Helm was our first and only tool in regards of automating deployments on Kubernetes.

Alternatives

HashiCorp Vault, Consul, by HashiCorp, Spinnaker

Other Software Used

Team Lead, Cloud DevOps

Helm 2022-08-11 15:36:06

HashiCorp Terraform

We are also using Terraform for deployment, but it's more suited for new deployments and specific use cases. Helm takes the lead in terms of containers software package management, and it addresses our use case of ensuring all software packages deployment are uniform, secure - from a trusted repository, rapid deployment and rollbacks.

Templates - The ability to create templates is really helpful and help creates a baseline for package management.
Rollbacks - it is godsend. Period.
Dry-run - This really is helpful when troubleshooting deployments and is great for testing out new charts as well.

It would be great if there is verbose mode in Helm errors. Not sure if it's a thing. But more detail in the errors do helps, at times.

Deployment of helm charts is really fundamental to any software packages to our Kubernetes/docker containers, and without Helm, I cannot imagine how else to manage software components upgrades. When it works, it works great, when it doesn't - the world has not come to an end, there is rollback, and it's great, but troubleshooting does take time. And there is a learning curve. But it be worth it.

Reuse. Reuse. Reuse.
Templates.
Rollbacks.

Reduction in human effort.
Streamline software versions and upgrades.

We use Terraform as well. But Terraform is more suited for new deployments and specific use cases. For Helm, it is especially well suited for large scale cloud instances software deployment, by helping us to keep track of software components and versions centrally, and automated deployments is a huge plus.

Engineer

Helm 2022-04-17 21:48:44

NGINX

Elasticsearch

GitHub

GitLab

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Helm is the go-to tool to deploy large, complex containerized applications on Kubernetes clusters. It features a large ecosystem of ready-to-use charts, such as GitLab, MySQL, Nginx, etc., which can be deployed with a one-liner. We also use Helm to package the customer's containerized applications and help them with adopting DevOps or GitOps.

Deploying containerized applications in Kubernetes
DevOps

concurrent deployments
templating values files

Helm is very well suited for setting up GitOps or DevOps pipelines, as well as quickly setting up large, complex applications, such as GitLab, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Prometheus/Kibana or MySQL. We also use it intensely to deploy and configure smaller building blocks in the Cloud Native / Kubernetes area, such as Ingress Controller, Cert Manager, External DNS, OpenPolicyAgent, Falco, Fluentd, to name a few.

When deploying Kubernetes Manifests, one has a few choice:
Vanilla Kubernetes (e.g., kubectl apply), but this requires to do all templating by hand and does not deal with removing Kubernetes objects.Docker compose: Works perfectly (and we love to use it) on a single Docker node, but not for multi-node clusters.Kustomize complements (but does not completely replace) Helm.Furthermore, none of the above solutions allows one to tap into the vast ecosystem of Helm Charts that encapsulate existing knowledge on how to deploy and operate containerized applications.

We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.

Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, GitHub, Gitlab, Prometheus, NGINX

Cloud Native Architect

Helm 2020-01-16 14:06:31

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Helm

Overview

What is Helm?

Helm... some time invested at the beginning with configuration and learning, but a lot of saved time later!

Helm - The Essential Tool For Any Kubernetes Environment

Helm: Tapping into the global knowledge of deploying and operating containerized software

Pricing

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