Show HN: Composability of software components is the biggest benefit of K8s

Re:Show HN: Composability of software components is the bigg... by trog on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:12AM (#25787249)

I got 1.5 paragraphs into this article and ran into the term "helm chart", which I'd never heard before. I searched it and lo and behold, it (Helm) is a package management system for Kubernetes [1].

I'm sure this is quite basic entry-level stuff for the Kubernetes platform, but I haven't used it before. I find myself reading random articles on the topic so I can try to find an interesting use case for it but every time I seem to run into some new terminology like this and feel even more lost than I was before :)

1. https://helm.sh

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Re:Show HN: Composability of software components is the bigg... by knowhy on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:29PM (#25793433)

AFAIK it is basic and a common way to install packages in k8s. Usually the developers of a project with k8s focus like Prometheus provide a helm chart for easy installation. However it is a package manager and easy confused with a distribution. I recommend to read "Who's at the helm?" [0] discussed a few days ago here [1].

0: https://dlorenc.medium.com/whos-at-the-helm-1101c37bf0f1 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25647753

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