Related Projects and Documentation
The Helm community has produced many extra tools, plugins, and documentation about Helm. We love to hear about these projects.
If you have anything you'd like to add to this list, please open an issue or pull request.
Helm Plugins
- Helm Diff - Preview
helm upgradeas a coloured diff - helm-gcs - Plugin to manage repositories on Google Cloud Storage
- helm-monitor - Plugin to monitor a release and rollback based on Prometheus/ElasticSearch query
- helm-k8comp - Plugin to create Helm Charts from hiera using k8comp
- helm-unittest - Plugin for unit testing chart locally with YAML
- hc-unit - Plugin for unit testing charts locally using OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego
- helm-s3 - Helm plugin that allows to use AWS S3 as a [private] chart repository
- helm-schema-gen - Helm Plugin that generates values yaml schema for your Helm 3 charts
- helm-secrets - Plugin to manage and store secrets safely (based on sops)
- helm-git - Install charts and retrieve values files from your Git repositories
- helm-tanka - A Helm plugin for rendering Tanka/Jsonnet inside Helm charts.
We also encourage GitHub authors to use the helm-plugin tag on their plugin repositories.
Additional Tools
Tools layered on top of Helm.
- Konveyor Move2Kube - Generate Helm charts for your existing projects.
- Chartify - Generate Helm charts from existing Kubernetes resources.
- VIM-Kubernetes - VIM plugin for Kubernetes and Helm
- Landscaper - "Landscaper takes a set of Helm Chart references with values (a desired state), and realizes this in a Kubernetes cluster."
- Helmfile - Helmfile is a declarative spec for deploying helm charts
- Helmsman - Helmsman is a helm-charts-as-code tool which enables installing/upgrading/protecting/moving/deleting releases from version controlled desired state files (described in a simple TOML format)
- Terraform Helm Provider - The Helm provider for HashiCorp Terraform enables lifecycle management of Helm Charts with a declarative infrastructure-as-code syntax. The Helm provider is often paired the other Terraform providers, like the Kubernetes provider, to create a common workflow across all infrastructure services.
- Monocular - Web UI for Helm Chart repositories
- Armada - Manage prefixed releases throughout various Kubernetes namespaces, and removes completed jobs for complex deployments
- ChartMuseum - Helm Chart Repository with support for Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
- Codefresh - Kubernetes native CI/CD and management platform with UI dashboards for managing Helm charts and releases
- Captain - A Helm3 Controller using HelmRequest and Release CRD
- chart-registry - Helm Charts Hosts on OCI Registry
- avionix - Python interface for generating Helm charts and Kubernetes yaml, allowing for inheritance and less duplication of code
- Tanka - Grafana Tanka configures Kubernetes resources through Jsonnet with the ability to consume Helm Charts
Helm Included
Platforms, distributions, and services that include Helm support.
- Kubernetic - Kubernetes Desktop Client
- Jenkins X - open source automated CI/CD for Kubernetes which uses Helm for promoting applications through environments via GitOps
Misc
Grab bag of useful things for Chart authors and Helm users.
