helm
The Kubernetes Package Manager (by helm)
helmfile
Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD. (by helmfile)
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Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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.
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 2025-04-24.
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Is Helm charting its way to retirement?
Helm Official Docs:
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Install Red Hat Developer Hub with AI Software Templates on OpenShift
Helm installed: brew install helm or from https://helm.sh
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Even more OpenTelemetry - Kubernetes special
Docker Compose is great for demos: docker compose up, and you're good to go, but I know no organization that uses it in production. Deploying workloads to Kubernetes is much more involved than that. I've used Kubernetes for demos in the past; typing kubectl apply -f is dull fast. In addition to GitOps, which isn't feasible for demos, the two main competitors are Helm and Kustomize. I chose the former for its ability to add dependencies.
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Kubernetes and Container Portability: Navigating Multi-Cloud Flexibility
Helm Charts โ An open-source solution for software deployment on top of Kubernetes
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Chart an Extensible Course with Helm
Clicks, copies, and pasting. That's an approach to deploying your applications in Kubernetes. Anyone who's worked with Kubernetes for more than 5 minutes knows that this is not a recipe for repeatability and confidence in your setup. Good news is, you've got options when tackling this problem. The option I'm going to present below is using Helm.
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Awesome Kubernetes Resources !!! ๐ฅ
๐Helm ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ - Helm is a tool for managing Charts. Charts are packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources.
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Terraform from 0 to Hero
Helm
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Let's Build Together: A Local Playground for Apacheย Polaris
Helm - Kubernetes Package Manager
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IKO - Lessons Learned (Part 1 - Helm)
Looks like we're good to go (assuming you already have helm installed, if not install it first)! Let's install the IKO. We are going to need to tell helm where the folder with all our goodies is (that's the iris-operator folder you see above). If we were to be sitting at the chart directory you can use the command
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My Love-Hate Relationship with Helm
If you have been looking for a tool to deploy your applications into a Kubernetes cluster, you have definitely stumbled upon Helm. Its the most common Kubernetes configuration management tool out there.
helmfile
Posts with mentions or reviews of helmfile.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-16.
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๐5 Open Source Tools That Changed My Development Workflow Forever
Helmfile fixed that problem for good.
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Awesome Kubernetes Resources !!! ๐ฅ
๐Helmfile ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ - Helmfile is a declarative spec for deploying helm charts.
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OTEL Auto Instrumentation Demo for SpringBoot
We can deploy our tool stack with helmfile. First check the architecture, for ex. with a command like uname -m and then install helmfile with the correct package. In my case the architecture was x86_64 and hence, I am installing the linux_amd64 package.
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Taming FluxCD HelmReleases: The Kustomize Way approach
The answer lies in a simple yet powerful sub-command โ helm template (or helmfile template if you use Helmfile). This command allows you to locally render helm charts along with your desired values, generating the final deployment manifest files.
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Installing multiple helm charts in one go [Approach 2 - using helmfile]
sudo wget https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/releases/download/v0.159.0/helmfile_0.159.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz sudo tar -xxf helmfile_0.159.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz sudo rm helmfile_0.159.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz sudo mv helmfile /usr/local/bin/
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Simplified Deployment: A Deep Dive into Containerization and Helm
Installation: https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/releases
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Helm-Compose โ The Docker-compose like tool for K8s development
What are the benefits over using helmfile? https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/
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self-built apps: do you like using helm or kustomize to deliver them to kubernetes
Helm charts and Helmfile
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Download packages for different architectures in your Dockerfiles using dumb-downloader, instead of writing scripts or separate Dockerfiles
And now I can just run dudo -l "https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile/releases/download/v{{ version }}/helmfile_{{ version }}_{{ os }}_{{ arch }}.tar.gz" -i /tmp/helmfile.tar.gz -p $HELMFILE_VERSION
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Declarative GitOps for...my ArgoCD itself?
I might be misunderstanding your question but we use https://github.com/helmfile/helmfile along with Argo, so essentially between eks and those I could rebuild our entire cluster in minutes.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helm and helmfile you can also consider the following projects:
oauth2-proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
vals - Helm-like configuration values loader with support for various sources
helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
helmsman - Helm Charts as Code
Packer - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
helmwave - New ๐ wave for @helm