Using Helm with Amazon EKS
The Helm package manager for Kubernetes helps you install and manage applications on your Kubernetes
cluster. For more information, see the Helm
documentation
Important
Before you can install Helm charts on your Amazon EKS cluster, you must configure
kubectl
to work for Amazon EKS. If you have not
already done this, see Creating or updating a kubeconfig file for an Amazon EKS cluster before proceeding. If the following command
succeeds for your cluster, you're properly configured.
kubectl get svc
To install the Helm binaries on your local system
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Run the appropriate command for your client operating system.
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If you're using macOS with Homebrew
, install the binaries with the following command. brew install helm
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If you're using Windows with Chocolatey
, install the binaries with the following command. choco install kubernetes-helm
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If you're using Linux, install the binaries with the following commands.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get-helm-3 > get_helm.sh chmod 700 get_helm.sh ./get_helm.sh
Note
If you get a message that
openssl
must first be installed, you can install it with the following command.sudo yum install openssl
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To pick up the new binary in your
PATH
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See the version of Helm that you installed.
helm version --short | cut -d + -f 1
An example output is as follows.
v
3.9.0
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At this point, you can run any Helm commands (such as
helm install
) to install, modify, delete, or query Helm charts in your cluster. If you're new to Helm and don't have a specific chart to install, you can:chart-name
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Experiment by installing an example chart. See Install an example chart
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Create an example chart and push it to Amazon ECR. For more information, see Pushing a Helm chart in the Amazon Elastic Container Registry User Guide.
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Install an Amazon EKS chart from the eks-charts
GitHub repo or from ArtifactHub .
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