Helm is the Kubernetes (application) package manager and Helm Charts the packages containing Kubernetes YAML manifest documents that define, install, and upgrade your application.
It is assumed that you have already created your Host Group running Kubernetes and have a Docker account.
Save Docker Credentials to Kubernetes Cluster
Open an SSH terminal on the Kubernetes Master host and run:
kubectl create secret docker-registry regcred --docker-username=<your-name> --docker-password=<your-password> --docker-email=<your-email> -n <your-namespace>
where <namespace> = the namespace into which you wish to deploy your application
Install Helm Client
Open an SSH terminal on the Kubernetes Master host.
Run the Helm installer script:
$ curl -LO https://git.io/get_helm.sh
$ chmod 700 get_helm.sh
$ ./get_helm.sh
Setup Tiller Service Account
Configure
Create rbac-config.yaml using the editor of your choice. In this example we are using the Vim Editor:
vim rbac-config.yaml
Press <i> to begin editing and enter (or copy/paste):
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: tiller
namespace: kube-system
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: tiller
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: tiller
namespace: kube-system
Press <Esc> to exit edit.
Type :wq to save and exit Vim.
Deploy
Deploy the new service account onto the Kubernetes cluster:
kubectl create -f rbac-config.yaml
Install the Tiller Service
Run the command:
helm init --service-account tiller
Note - as of Helm 2.2.0 the Tiller service can be upgraded using the following command:
helm init --upgrade
For more information on options, for example --history-max that is a recommended to limit the Helm history, refer directly to the Helm documentation.
Securing Helm
It is also important to note that this is an example of an unsecured installation of Helm and NOT recommended in a production setting. Again you are referred directly to the Helm documentation.
Verify Helm
To verify that you have the correct version of Helm and that it was installed correctly run command:
helm version
Installing a Helm chart
You can install charts from the official Helm repository or other repositories, including your own.
For this example of installing the MySQL database we will use the official Helm repository.
helm repo update (to get the latest list of charts)
helm install --name my-release stable/mysql
Verify that chart was installed correctly by running the following command:
kubectl get pods
Next Steps
You are now ready to install your own application(s)...
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