Related Projects and Documentation

The Helm community has produced many extra tools, plugins, and documentation about Helm. We love to hear about these projects.

If you have anything you’d like to add to this list, please open an issue or pull request.

Helm Plugins

Helm Diff - Preview helm upgrade as a coloured diff
helm-gcs - Plugin to manage repositories on Google Cloud Storage
helm-monitor - Plugin to monitor a release and rollback based on Prometheus/ElasticSearch query
helm-k8comp - Plugin to create Helm Charts from hiera using k8comp
helm-unittest - Plugin for unit testing chart locally with YAML
hc-unit - Plugin for unit testing charts locally using OPA (Open Policy Agent) & Rego
helm-s3 - Helm plugin that allows to use AWS S3 as a [private] chart repository
helm-schema-gen - Helm Plugin that generates values yaml schema for your Helm 3 charts

We also encourage GitHub authors to use the helm-plugin tag on their plugin repositories.

Tools layered on top of Helm.

Chartify - Generate Helm charts from existing Kubernetes resources.
VIM-Kubernetes - VIM plugin for Kubernetes and Helm
Landscaper - “Landscaper takes a set of Helm Chart references with values (a desired state), and realizes this in a Kubernetes cluster.”
Helmfile - Helmfile is a declarative spec for deploying helm charts
Helmsman - Helmsman is a helm-charts-as-code tool which enables installing/upgrading/protecting/moving/deleting releases from version controlled desired state files (described in a simple TOML format)
Monocular - Web UI for Helm Chart repositories
Armada - Manage prefixed releases throughout various Kubernetes namespaces, and removes completed jobs for complex deployments
ChartMuseum - Helm Chart Repository with support for Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage
Codefresh - Kubernetes native CI/CD and management platform with UI dashboards for managing Helm charts and releases
Captain - A Helm3 Controller using HelmRequest and Release CRD
chart-registry - Helm Charts Hosts on OCI Registry

Platforms, distributions, and services that include Helm support.

Kubernetic - Kubernetes Desktop Client
Jenkins X - open source automated CI/CD for Kubernetes which uses Helm for promoting applications through environments via GitOps

Grab bag of useful things for Chart authors and Helm users.

Await - Docker image to “await” different conditions–especially useful for init containers. More Info