helm
The Kubernetes Package Manager (by helm)
kubespray
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster (by kubernetes-sigs)
| helm | kubespray | |
|---|---|---|
| 248 | 59 | |
| 27,556 | 16,772 | |
| 0.8% | 1.8% | |
| 9.7 | 9.8 | |
| 10 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| Go | Jinja | |
| Apache License 2.0 | 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.
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 2025-03-04.
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Terraform from 0 to Hero
Helm
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Let's Build Together: A Local Playground for Apache 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.
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Supercharging Deepseek-R1 with Ray + vLLM: A Distributed System Approach
We are going to use kuberay operator(🤔) and kuberay apiserver(❓). Kuberay apiserve allows us to create the ray cluster without using native kubernetes, so that's a convenience, so lets install them(what is helm?):
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Helm Chart Essentials & Writing Effective Charts 🚀
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, similar to how apt/yum/brew work for operating systems. It helps you:
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Essential Kubernetes Setup for DevOps and Developers - A Community Based Guide
Helm Helm is widely used for deploying applications to Kubernetes through "charts" (pre-configured Kubernetes resources). It greatly simplifies managing Kubernetes resources and automates the deployment of complex applications. site
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Day 39 : Deploy Kubernetes Applications Easily with Helm Charts
Install Helm: You can use a package manager or download the binary from the Helm website.
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Securing Applications Using Keycloak's Helm Chart
Deploying Keycloak in a Kubernetes environment using Helm has several benefits:
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Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) Exam Guide
What is Helm
kubespray
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubespray.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-08.
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Setting Up The Home Lab: Setting up Kubernetes Using Ansible
So now that I've got my hosts deployed, it's time to set up Kubernetes. I've cloned the Kubespray GitHub repo and now I'll run the cluster.yml playbook:
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Lowest Price for your own kubernetes using Hetzner Cloud(incl. Storage Provisioner)
kube-master1:~# sudo apt install python3-pip -y sudo apt install python3-virtualenv -y git clone https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray.git VENVDIR=kubespray-venv KUBESPRAYDIR=kubespray ANSIBLE_VERSION=2.12 virtualenv --python=$(which python3) $VENVDIR source $VENVDIR/bin/activate (kubespray-venv) kube-master1:~# cd $KUBESPRAYDIR pip install -U -r requirements.txt cp -rfp inventory/sample inventory/mycluster
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Provisioning Kubernetes Clusters with Kubespray
For further troubleshooting on any encountered issue, please refer to the official Kubespray repository for comprehensive troubleshooting steps.
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Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters
When it came to deployment, I had several options, and I chose the hard way: deploying Kubernetes on bare metal nodes using KubeSpray. Troubleshooting bare metal Kubernetes deployments honed my skills in pinpointing issues. This hands-on experience provided a deep understanding of how each component, like the Control Plane, kubelet, Container Runtime, and scheduler, interacts to orchestrate containers.
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Zarf: K8s in Airgapped Environments
Worth noting that if you like ansible, Kubespray has had documented air-gap installation since 2018 https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray/commit/963c3479...
- Ask HN: Options for K8s On-Prem
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Kubernetes dial tcp myIP:10250: connect: no route to host
calico v3.7.3 kubernetes v1.16.0 installed via kubespray https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
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How many of you are running kubernetes on prem?
About 1yr ago I ran k8s with 300 nodes using kube spray https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray . Never had any real issue with it. We did finally move to the cloud though.
- Automated Kubernetes installation
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Learning to setup my own k8s cluster
I would highly recommend https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubespray
What are some alternatives?
When comparing helm and kubespray 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.
talos - Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
helmfile - Deploy Kubernetes Helm Charts
kubeadm - Aggregator for issues filed against kubeadm
Packer - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes