Awesome Helm

A collaborative list of awesome Helm resources.

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes, it makes deploying complex application workloads simple, helps organize the update process.

Contents

• Guides
• Repositories / hubs
• Application repositories
• Plugins
• Tools, extras
• Community

Guides

• How to create your first helm chart - Bitnami guide on authoring your first chart
• Authoring awesome charts - official Helm guide on authoring Awesome Charts
• Kompose - how to translate a docker-compose file into a Helm chart

Repositories / hubs

Official Kubernetes Helm repositories

• Kubernetes Helm charts stable repo
• Kubernetes Helm charts incubating repo
• Helm Hub - Official Helm Hub

3rd party repositories / hubs

• Cloudsmith - A fully managed package management SaaS, with first-class support for public and private Kubernetes registries (Docker + Helm Charts, plus many others). Has a generous free-tier and is also completely free for open-source.
• Fabric8 - chart repository by Fabric8
• Kubeapps - Kubeapps helm chart hub by Bitnami
• Fairwinds - Chart hub by Fairwinds
• ChartCenter - Central repository of Helm charts by JFrog

Application repositories

These usually hold a single chart or a group of connected charts. Can be more up to date than the mainstream Kubernetes repos.

• Gitlab Omnibus - an All-In-One chart for deploying Gitlab in Kubernetes
• Jupyterhub and Binderhub - charts for deploying services to run Jupyter notebooks
• Harbor - Harbor is a container and Helm registry with built-in security
• OpenStack - various charts by the OpenStack project
• Fn Project - Fn serverless platform charts
• Lenses - charts for Lenses, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect and other components for data streaming and data integration
• Zalenium - flexible and scalable container based Selenium Grid with video recording, live preview, basic auth & dashboard
• Elasticsearch Fluentd Kibana - chart to deploy a full EFK stack for Kubernetes monitoring
• Bitwarden - Helm chart for deploying bitwarden-rs - unofficial Bitwarden-compatible server
• Elastic - Official helm charts for Elatic.co's open source products (ElasticSearch, Kibana & filebeat)
• Mocktail - Helm chart for deploying the free, tiny mock api server Mocktail

Plugins

• Helm Blob - Plugin that allows you to manage helm repositories on the blob storage like Azure Blob, GCS, S3, etc.
• Helm Diff - Plugin that shows a diff explaing what a helm upgrade and helm rollback would change. It can also compare two separate revisions of the release.
• Helm Dt - Plugin that helps moving Helm charts across OCI registries.
• Helm Env - Plugin to show the environment variables available to a helm plugin.
• Helm Last - Plugin that shows the latest release interacted with. This is useful for chaining commands together like helm status $(helm last).
• Helm Local - Plugin to run Tiller (helm 2's server-side component) as a local daemon.
• Helm Nuke - Plugin that deletes and purges all releases stored by Tiller.
• Helm Secrets - Plugin to manage and store secrets safely.
• Helm Monitor - Plugin to monitor a release and rollback based on Prometheus/ElasticSearch query.
• Helm S3 - Plugin to fetch charts from S3.
• Helm Starter - Plugin that simplifies working with helm chart starter packs.
• Helm GCS - Plugin that manages chart repos on Google Cloud Storage privately.
• Helm GitHub - Plugin that detects and install Helm Charts from GitHub Public/Private Repository Releases.
• Helm Schema - Auto-generate jsonschema files for helm charts.
• Helm Schema Gen - So that you don't have to write values.schema.json by hand from scratch for your Helm 3 charts
• Helm Datree - Plugin to prevent Kubernetes misconfigurations by ensuring that Helm charts follow best practices as well as your organization’s policies
• Helm Teller - Plugin that allows you to manage deployment configuration and secrets from multiple providers securely with Teller
• Helm Release - Plugin that pulls(re-creates) Helm charts from deployed releases, also allows update values of deployed releases without supplying the chart(for modified or custom charts, or when there's no access to the chart)
• Helm Compose - Plugin that allows coupled multi release handling of one or many charts. With full configuration-as-code capabilities in a single yaml file similar to docker-compose.

Tools, Extras

Helm-related tools

• Keel.sh - Continuous delivery for Kubernetes - enhances Helm with auto upgrades and other cool features
• Helmfile - Helmfile is a declarative spec for deploying helm charts, supports flexible templating scenarios
• Helmsman - Helmsman provides a declarative way of installing charts, features terraform-like desired state file approach and security enhancements
• Reckoner - Reckoner is a tool to simplify management and installation of multiple Helm chart releases
• Monocular - A web-based application that enables the search and discovery of charts from multiple Helm Chart repositories
• Ship - A tool that makes it easy to watch and apply updates to Helm charts and integrates Kustomize patches and overlays
• Brigade - A tool for running scriptable, automated tasks in the cloud — as part of your Kubernetes cluster
• Helm-Starter-Istio - A helm starter for creating Istio managed services
• Helm Broker - A Service Broker which exposes Helm charts as Service Classes in the Service Catalog
• Chart Releaser - Helps Turn GitHub Repositories into Helm Chart Repositories
• ChartMuseum - ChartMuseum is an open-source, easy to deploy, Helm Chart Repository server.
• Helmify - Generates a Helm chart from Kubernetes yamls
• Helm Docs - Auto-generates documentation from helm charts into markdown files
• Readme Generator - Autogenerate Helm Charts READMEs' tables based on values YAML file metadata.
• Chart Viewer - Helps you inspect and compare chart template and also rendered manifest
• werf - A CLI tool for implementing CI/CD best practices using an extended version of Helm under the hood for deployment

Community

Forums, discussion groups, SO tags.

• Helm Slack - #helm-users channel on Kubernetes Slack
• StackOverflow Kubernetes-Helm - Stack Overflow threads tagged kubernetes-helm
• StackOverflow Helm - Stack Overflow threads tagged Helm

Contributing

Contributions are most welcome!

This list is just getting started, please contribute to make it super awesome.

Check out the Contributing Guidelines.

License

awesome-helm by CodeWave is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Maintainers

Project is currently maintained, in our spare time, by codewave.eu and a growing number of Contributors!