Helm moves out of Kubernetes’ shadow to become stand-alone project
Summary
Helm is an open source project that enables developers to create packages of containerized apps to make installation much simpler.Both Kubernetes and Helm are projects managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).Dan Kohn, executive director at the CNCF says the two projects are closely aligned so it made sense for Helm to be a sub-project up until now.If you want you to install this [package], you access the Kubernetes API, and it pulls this many containers and pods and [it handles] all of the steps involved to do that,” Kohn explained.“By joining CNCF, we’ll benefit from the input and participation of the community, and conversely Kubernetes will benefit when a community of developers provides a vast repository of ready-made charts for running workloads on Kubernetes,” Matt Butcher, co-creator of Helm and principal engineer at Microsoft said in a statement.