helm install

https://helm.sh/docs/helm/helm_install/

• helm install --help
• helm install --set
• helm install --dry-run
• helm install --debug
• helm install --timeout
• helm install --namespace
• helm install --values

• --generate-name

• --create-namespace
• helm install -f myvalues.yaml -f override.yaml myredis ./redis
• helm upgrade --install
• helm install --repo https://example.com/charts/ mynginx nginx

Examples

• Prometheus: helm install myprometheus prometheus-community/prometheus

Grafana

helm install --set persistence.enabled=true grafana grafana/grafana

Deprecated example: helm install --set persistence.enabled=true grafana stable/grafana

helm install grafana stable/grafana --set persistence.enabled=true --set persistence.accessModes={ReadWriteOnce} --set persistence.size=8Gi

helm install MY_GRAFANA_NAME stable/grafana

helm install --set persistence.enabled=true grafana grafana/grafana --set ingress.enabled=true

helm install stable/grafana
Error: must either provide a name or specify --generate-name

helm install MY_FIRST_GRAFANA_INSTALL stable/grafana
Error: INSTALLATION FAILED: failed to download "stable/grafana"

• Fluentd: helm install fluentd

• Fluentbit: helm install fluent-bit

• Velero: helm install velero

• Redis: helm install redis
• MariaDB: helm install mariadb

MySQL

helm install --name mysql stable/mysql (deprecated in Helm v3)
Error: unknown flag: --name

Ingress Nginx

helm repo add ingress-nginx https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/
helm install my-release ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx

helm install --name ingress-nginx ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx

helm install kubernetes-dashboard/kubernetes-dashboard --name my-release --set=service.externalPort=8080,resources.limits.cpu=200m
helm install my-release kubernetes-dashboard/kubernetes-dashboard

helm install RELEASE_NAME prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack

helm install my-duplicated-name kubernetes-dashboard/kubernetes-dashboard
Error: INSTALLATION FAILED: cannot re-use a name that is still in use

helm install --name cert-manager --namespace cert-manager --version v1.1.0 jetstack/cert-manager --set installCRDs=true

helm install kube-ops-view

helm install sentry/sentry-kubernetes your-sentry-test -f values.yaml  --wait --namespace sentry-test --set 
email.password=%smtp.pass% --set user.password=%user.pass%
Error: INSTALLATION FAILED: non-absolute URLs should be in form of repo_name/path_to_chart, got: your-sentry-test

Elasticsearch

helm install elasticsearch ./helm-charts/elasticsearch --set imageTag=7.17.3
https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/elastic/elasticsearch

helm install elasticsearch elastic/elasticsearch
helm install elasticsearch elastic/elasticsearch --set replicas=2

Yourapp

helm install yourapp .

SentinelOne

helm install sentinelone

manifest example

resource "kubernetes_manifest" "test-configmap" {
 manifest = {
   "apiVersion" = "v1"
   "kind"       = "ConfigMap"
   "metadata" = {
     "name"      = "test-config"
     "namespace" = "default"
   }
   "data" = {
     "foo" = "bar"
   }
 }
}

Datadog

helm install <RELEASE_NAME> datadog/synthetics-private-location --set-file configFile=<MY_WORKER_CONFIG_FILE_NAME>.json

Related commands

• kubectl get services
• minikube addons enable ingress
• helm repo list
• helm upgrade --install
• helm ls
• helm rollback
• -n, --namespace
• helm template
• helm get manifest
• helm uninstall
• helm install metrics-server
• pending-upgrade

See also

• helm install [ --set | --dry-run | --debug | --timeout | --namespace | --create-namespace | --generate-name | --help ] values.yaml, helm upgrade --install
• helm create, values.yaml, templates, functions, podAnnotations:, podSecurityContext:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/57964140/14175738