Related Projects and Documentation

• Awesome Helm - List of awesome Helm resources
• Creating a Helm Plugin in 3 Steps
• GitLab, Consumer Driven Contracts, Helm and Kubernetes
• Releasing backward-incompatible changes: Kubernetes, Jenkins, Prometheus Operator, Helm and Traefik
• Using Helm to Deploy to Kubernetes
• A basic walk through Kubernetes Helm
• Generating Certificate Authorities and Certificates using Terraform

Video, Audio, and Podcast

• : AKA “The Infamous Croc Hunter Video”.
• Helm with Michelle Noorali and Matthew Butcher: The official Google CloudPlatform Podcast interviews Michelle and Matt about Helm.

• App Registry - Plugin to manage charts via the
• helm-backup - Plugin which performs backup/restore of releases in a namespace to/from a file
• - Preview as a coloured diff
• Technosophos’s Helm Plugins - Plugins for GitHub, Keybase, and GPG
• - Plugin to convert charts into Kustomize compatible packages
• helm-cos - Plugin to manage repositories on Tencent Cloud Object Storage
• - Plugin for editing release’s values
• helm-env - Plugin to show current environment
• - Plugin to manage repositories on Google Cloud Storage
• helm-github - Plugin to install Helm Charts from Github repositories
• - Plugin for tracking docker tag hash digests as values
• helm-inject - Plugin for injecting additional configurations during release upgrade
• - Plugin to create Helm Charts from hiera using k8comp
• helm-last - Plugin to show the latest release
• - Plugin to run Tiller as a local daemon
• helm-logs - Plugin to view changed releases over time
• - Plugin to monitor a release and rollback based on Prometheus/ElasticSearch query
• helm-nexus - Plugin to use Sonatype Nexus OSS as your own charts repository.
• - Plugin to destroy all releases
• helm-plugin-utils - Utility functions to be used within Helm plugins
• - Plugin to restore a deployed release to its original state
• helm-secrets - Plugin to manage and store secrets safely
• - Plugin to inject values coming from AWS SSM parameters on the values.yaml file
• helm-stop - Plugin for stopping a release pods
• - Debug/render templates client-side
• helm-tiller - Additional commands to work with Tiller
• - Plugin which prints information about Tiller
• helm-unittest - Plugin for unit testing chart locally with YAML
• - Helm plugin for using Tiller locally and in CI/CD pipelinesWe also encourage GitHub authors to use the helm-plugintag on their plugin repositories.

Additional Tools

• - Manage prefixed releases throughout various Kubernetes namespaces, and removes completed jobs for complex deployments. Used by the Openstack-Helm team.
• - Helm Chart Repository with support for Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
• Chartify - Generate Helm charts from existing Kubernetes resources.
• - Fully managed SaaS offering private Helm Chart Repositories
• Codefresh - Kubernetes native CI/CD and management platform with UI dashboards for managing Helm charts and releases
• - Helm chart to deploy Cog on Kubernetes
• Drone.io Helm Plugin - Run Helm inside of the Drone CI/CD system
• - HTTP API for publishing Helm Charts in an easy way
• Helm.NET - A .NET client for Tiller’s API
• - Helmfile is a declarative spec for deploying helm charts
• Helmsman - Helmsman is a helm-charts-as-code tool which enables installing/upgrading/protecting/moving/deleting releases from version controlled desired state files (described in a simple TOML format).
• - “Landscaper takes a set of Helm Chart references with values (a desired state), and realizes this in a Kubernetes cluster.”
• Monocular - Web UI for Helm Chart repositories
• - Advanced CI\CD tool for Kubernetes and Helm made simple.
• Quay App Registry - Open Kubernetes application registry, including a Helm access client
• - Reckoner (formerly Autohelm) is a tool for declarative management of helm releases. Written in python and supports git urls as a source for helm charts.
• Rudder - RESTful (JSON) proxy for Tiller’s API
• - Render a Helm manifest to a directory
• Shipper - Multi-cluster canary or blue-green rollouts using Helm
• - VIM plugin for Kubernetes and Helm

• Codefresh - A CI/CD solution designed specifically for Docker/Kubernetes/Helm. Includes a private Helm repository and graphical dashboards for Helm charts, Helm releases and Helm environments.
• - Integrated development platform for Kubernetes
• Jenkins X - open source automated CI/CD for Kubernetes which uses Helm for applications through environments via GitOps
• - Kubernetes Desktop Client
• Qstack

Misc

• - Docker image to “await” different conditions–especially useful for init containers. More Info