Kubernetes is an excellent tool for container orchestration, but managing configurations and deployments manually can become cumbersome as your environment grows. Helm simplifies this process by introducing the concept of "charts" — reusable, templated packages that make deployments configurable, repeatable, and manageable.
In this talk, we will explore Helm, a graduated CNCF project, and its capabilities. We will show how to work with it, best practices, how to avoid common pitfalls, how you can publish your own charts, and how to integrate it into your development workflow.
Along the way, we'll highlight what's new in Helm 4: WebAssembly-based plugins, server-side apply, improved deployment monitoring with kstatus, and faster caching. At the end, we also take a look at helmfile and how it can improve your Helm and Kubernetes experience even more.