Installing Charts

Part of the Helm course

Most of the time you reach for Helm, you are not writing a chart. You are installing someone else's. Bitnami's PostgreSQL, ingress-nginx, kube-prometheus-stack, cert-manager: whole applications that other people have already packaged, tested, and kept up to date. Writing a chart from scratch is the exception, not the rule.

Your Helm CLI starts out knowing nothing except how to talk to a cluster. It has no built-in list of charts. To install bitnami/nginx, Helm first has to know that bitnami refers to https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami, a plain HTTPS server that hosts packaged charts and an index file describing them. ...