A few weeks ago, the CNCF family was extended with a new project – Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes.
Kubernetes was developed as a solution to manage and orchestrate containerized workloads. At the same time, managing the pure containers is not always enough. At the final end, Kubernetes is being used to run applications, and having a solution that will simplify the ability to run and deploy applications with Kubernetes, was a high demand. Helm was this solution.
Originally developed by Deis, Helm shortly became a de-facto open source standard for running and managing applications with Kubernetes.
Imagine Kubernetes as an Operating System (OS), Helm is the apt or yum for it. Any operating system is a great foundation, but the real value is in the applications. Package managers like apt, yum, or similar, simplify the operations so instead of building the application from the source files, you can easily install it with the package manager in a few clicks.
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