Installing a chart

Let's start by installing an application by using one of the charts provided by the community.

You can discover applications that the community has produced Helm charts for at https://hub.kubeapps.com/. As well as making it simple to deploy a wide range of applications to your Kubernetes cluster, it's a great resource for learning some of the best practices the community uses when packaging applications for Helm.

Helm charts can be stored in a repository, so it is simple to install them by name. By default, Helm is already configured to use one remote repository called Stable.

This makes it simple for us to try out some commonly used applications as soon as Helm is installed.

Before you install a chart, you will need to ...

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