4 ways to install Helm

4 ways to install Helm

Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts help you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application. This how-to article  shows how to install the Helm CLI. Helm can be installed in either of these 4 ways namely from source, or from  binary , from script and through Package manager.

From Source (Linux, macOS)

Building Helm from source is the best way to go if you want to test the latest (pre-release) Helm version.

You must have a working Go environment.

$ git clone https://github.com/helm/helm.git
$ cd helm
$ make

From the Binary Releases

Every release of Helm provides binary releases for a variety of OSes. These binary versions can be manually downloaded and installed.

1. Download your desired version.
2. Unpack it

tar -zxvf helm-v3.0.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz

3. Find the helm binary in the unpacked directory, and move it to its desired destination

mv linux-amd64/helm /usr/local/bin/helm

4. Once you have Helm ready, you can add a chart repository. The official Helm stable charts:

$ helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/

From Script

Helm now has an installer script that will automatically grab the latest version of Helm and install it locally.

curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3
$ chmod 700 get_helm.sh
$ ./get_helm.sh

[root@elkserveristio]# curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3
[root@elkserveristio]# ls
get_helm.sh  istio-1.4.3
[root@elkserveristio]# chmod 700 get_helm.sh
[root@elkserveristio]# ./get_helm.sh
Downloading https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.1.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz
Preparing to install helm into /usr/local/bin
helm installed into /usr/local/bin/helm
[root@elkserveristio]#

Through Package Manager

Homebrew (macOS)
Members of the Kubernetes community have contributed a Helm formula build to Homebrew.

brew install helm

Chocolatey (Windows)
Members of the Kubernetes community have contributed a Helm package build to Chocolatey.

choco install kubernetes-helm