helm vs helm-charts

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helm		helm-charts
	Project
1	Mentions	98
4	Stars	4,637
-	Growth	2.6%
0.0	Activity	9.7
8 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Mustache	Language	Mustache
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

helm

Posts with mentions or reviews of helm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-07.

Development Containers?
2 projects | /r/podman | 7 May 2021

I went on to recently add vscode to it and wrap it in a helm chart that I've been using for the last week. I think it will definitely be something I am going to be enhancing.

helm-charts

Posts with mentions or reviews of helm-charts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-24.

You get what you Measure: Understanding your applications health with Grafana, Loki and Prometheus
3 projects | dev.to | 24 Apr 2024

Prometheus can be deployed using the Prometheus Helm Chart. This helm chart contains a lot of features such as the already mentioned Push Gateway, Alert Manager and so on. For simplicity reasons of this tutorial I will not show all the Helm chart configuration but you can see a real example used by me here.
Multi-Cluster Prometheus: Scaling Metrics Across Kubernetes Clusters
1 project | dev.to | 26 Jan 2024

Building upon Bartłomiej Płotka's insightful blog on Prometheus and its passthrough agent mode, this post dives into implementing multi-cluster Prometheus support. Notably, the official inclusion of support in the widely-used kube-prometheus-stack came with the release in July 2023, making it easier to extend Prometheus monitoring across clusters.
Hands On: Pull metrics into Kubernetes from anywhere and treat them generically with the Keptn Metrics Server
1 project | dev.to | 2 Jan 2024

The first thing you'll need, of course, is at least one backend to store metrics. So install Prometheus now:
Kubernetes Ingress Visibility
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 10 Dec 2023

For the request following, something like jeager https://www.jaegertracing.io/, because you are talking more about tracing than necessarily logging. For just monitoring, https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack would be the starting point, then it depends. Nginx gives metrics out of the box, then you can pull in the dashboard like https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/14314-kubernetes-nginx-ingress-controller-nextgen-devops-nirvana/ , or full metal with something like service mesh monitoring which would provably fulfil most of the requirements
Smart-Cash project -Adding monitoring to EKS using Prometheus operator
5 projects | dev.to | 30 Nov 2023

kube-prometheus-stack is a Helm chart that contains several components to monitor the Kubernetes cluster, along with Grafana dashboards Grafana Dashboards to visualize the data. This option will be used in this article.
K8s Monitoring Per Namespace
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 26 Sep 2023

This one I highly recommend: https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts/kube-prometheus-stack
Is Prometheus the right tool for my use case here?
2 projects | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 19 Sep 2023
Do we have any Prometheus metric to get the kubernetes cluster-level CPU/Memory requests/limits?
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 11 Jul 2023

We use kube-prometheus-stack for metrics and have added the K8s views dashboards from grafana-dashboards-kubernetes. You should check out the k8s-views-global dashboard. I believe it's just what you are looking for.
Alertmanager SMTP configuration
1 project | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 1 Jul 2023

You should take a look at "kube-prometheus-stack". It not only includes prometheus, node-exporter and Grafana but also a ton of preconfigured alerts and dashboards. Will save you a lot of work!
How do I find / edit Prometheus configuration after deploying it on Kubernetes ?
1 project | /r/PrometheusMonitoring | 16 Jun 2023

Since their are different ways to install what exactly did you install? Vanilla charts , stack, operator? https://github.com/prometheus-community/helm-charts/tree/main/charts

What are some alternatives?

When comparing helm and helm-charts you can also consider the following projects:

onechart - A generic Helm chart for your application deployments

tanka - Flexible, reusable and concise configuration for Kubernetes

kube-thanos - Kubernetes specific configuration for deploying Thanos.

kube-prometheus - Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes

kustomize - Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations

pihole-kubernetes - PiHole on kubernetes

pack - CLI for building apps using Cloud Native Buildpacks

gatekeeper-library - 📚 The OPA Gatekeeper policy library

OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

cp-helm-charts - The Confluent Platform Helm charts enable you to deploy Confluent Platform services on Kubernetes for development, test, and proof of concept environments.

prometheus-operator - Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes

hull - The incredible HULL - Helm Uniform Layer Library - is a Helm library chart to improve Helm chart based workflows