Helm 3: Navigating to distant shores

Bridget Kromhout and Jessica Deen lead a demo-fueled exploration of the differences between Helm 3 and the Helm of yore, tips for a successful rollout or upgrade, and opportunities to shape the projects future.

Adjusting your spyglass and looking out over the water, you can see how useful a package manager like Helm is. Perhaps you’ve used it to manage the fractal complexity of packages on your Kubernetes clusters (without losing track of versions stashed in the hold). But Helm 3 is rumored to be different, and you’re ready to get started on this exciting voyage—as soon as you have some idea of what’s port and what’s starboard. Bridget Kromhout and Jessica Deen answer questions like, When do I use Go templates versus Lua?; How do I move my production Helm 2 installation to Helm 3 seamlessly?; What do I use now instead of Tiller?; and more. In this demo-fueled exploration, Bridget and Jessica take you through differences from the Helm of yore, tips for a successful rollout or upgrade, and opportunities to shape the project’s future. The cloud native waters can be choppy, but a technical deep dive powered by open source tooling will steer you right.