Package Management with Helm in Kubernetes

In this lab you will utilize a three-node Kubernetes cluster to explore Helm for package management. The lab guides learners through Helm installation, deploying applications with Helm, creating Helm charts, scaling deployments, and concludes by deploying a ChartMuseum Helm repository and pushing charts to it using a Helm plugin.

• Install Helm
• Add Repositories
• Install Helm Charts locally and from a repository.
• Create and scale Helm Charts
• Install plugins
• Create a ChartMuseum Helm Repository
• Install and use plugins
• Package and push Helm Charts

Software and Virtual Hardware:

• 3 x Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.6 VMs
• Kubernetes 1.34.1
• ChartMuseum
• Telegraf 1.29 , InfluxDB 1.8, Grafana 9.5.1
• MetalLB
• Rook-Ceph 1.14
• Helm