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# Awesome Helm [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



> A collaborative list of awesome [Helm](https://helm.sh) resources.



Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes, it makes deploying complex application workloads simple, helps organize the update process.



# Contents



- [Guides](#guides)

- [Repositories / hubs](#repositories--hubs)

- [Application repositories](#application-repositories)

- [Plugins](#plugins)

- [Tools, extras](#tools-extras)

- [Community](#community)



Guides

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* [How to create your first helm chart](https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Application-Catalog/services/tutorials/GUID-create-first-helm-chart-index.html) - VMware guide on authoring your first chart

* [Authoring awesome charts](https://github.com/helm/helm-classic/blob/master/docs/awesome.md) - official Helm guide on authoring Awesome Charts

* [Kompose](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/translate-compose-kubernetes/) - how to translate a docker-compose file into a Helm chart



Repositories / hubs

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Official Kubernetes Helm repositories



* [Kubernetes Helm charts stable repo](https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/stable)

* [Kubernetes Helm charts incubating repo](https://github.com/helm/charts/tree/master/incubator)

* [Helm Hub](https://hub.helm.sh) - Official Helm Hub



3rd party repositories / hubs



* [Cloudsmith](https://cloudsmith.io/l/helm-repository/) - A fully managed package management SaaS, with first-class support for public and private Kubernetes registries (Docker + Helm Charts, plus many others). Has a generous free-tier and is also completely free for open-source.

* [Fabric8](https://fabric8.io/helm/) - chart repository by Fabric8

* [Kubeapps](https://hub.kubeapps.com/) - Kubeapps helm chart hub by Bitnami

* [Fairwinds](https://hub.helm.sh/charts/fairwinds-stable) - Chart hub by Fairwinds

* [ChartCenter](https://chartcenter.io) - Central repository of Helm charts by JFrog



Application repositories

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These usually hold a single chart or a group of connected charts. Can be more up to date than the mainstream Kubernetes repos.



* [Gitlab Omnibus](https://charts.gitlab.io) - an All-In-One chart for deploying Gitlab in Kubernetes

* [Jupyterhub and Binderhub](https://jupyterhub.github.io/helm-chart/) - charts for deploying services to run Jupyter notebooks

* [Harbor](https://github.com/goharbor/harbor-helm) - Harbor is a container and Helm registry with built-in security

* [OpenStack](https://github.com/openstack/openstack-helm) - various charts by the OpenStack project

* [Fn Project](https://github.com/fnproject/fn-helm) - Fn serverless platform charts

* [Lenses](https://github.com/Landoop/kafka-helm-charts) - charts for Lenses, Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect and other components for data streaming and data integration

* [Zalenium](https://github.com/zalando/zalenium/tree/master/charts/zalenium) - flexible and scalable container based Selenium Grid with video recording, live preview, basic auth & dashboard

* [Elasticsearch Fluentd Kibana](https://github.com/cdwv/efk-stack-helm) - chart to deploy a full EFK stack for Kubernetes monitoring

* [Bitwarden](https://github.com/cdwv/bitwarden-k8s) - Helm chart for deploying bitwarden-rs - unofficial Bitwarden-compatible server

* [Elastic](https://github.com/elastic/helm-charts/) - Official helm charts for [Elatic.co](https://www.elastic.co/)'s open source products (ElasticSearch, Kibana & filebeat)

* [Mocktail](https://github.com/Huseyinnurbaki/mocktail) - Helm chart for deploying the free, tiny mock api server Mocktail



Plugins

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* [Helm Blob](https://github.com/C123R/helm-blob) - Plugin that allows you to manage helm repositories on the blob storage like Azure Blob, GCS, S3, etc.

* [Helm Cel](https://github.com/idsulik/helm-cel) - Plugin that uses Common Expression Language ([CEL](https://cel.dev/)) to validate values.

* [Helm Diff](https://github.com/databus23/helm-diff) - Plugin that shows a diff explaing what a `helm upgrade` and `helm rollback` would change. It can also compare two separate revisions of the release.

* [Helm Dt](https://github.com/vmware-labs/distribution-tooling-for-helm) - Plugin that helps moving Helm charts across OCI registries.

* [Helm Env](https://github.com/adamreese/helm-env) - Plugin to show the environment variables available to a helm plugin.

* [Helm Last](https://github.com/adamreese/helm-last) - Plugin that shows the latest release interacted with. This is useful for chaining commands together like `helm status $(helm last)`.

* [Helm Local](https://github.com/adamreese/helm-local) - Plugin to run Tiller (helm 2's server-side component) as a local daemon.

* [Helm Nuke](https://github.com/adamreese/helm-nuke) - Plugin that deletes and purges all releases stored by Tiller.

* [Helm Secrets](https://github.com/jkroepke/helm-secrets) - Plugin to manage and store secrets safely.

* [Helm Monitor](https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/helm-monitor) - Plugin to monitor a release and rollback based on Prometheus/ElasticSearch query.

* [Helm S3](https://github.com/hypnoglow/helm-s3) - Plugin to fetch charts from S3.

* [Helm Starter](https://github.com/salesforce/helm-starter) - Plugin that simplifies working with helm chart starter packs.

* [Helm GCS](https://github.com/hayorov/helm-gcs) - Plugin that manages chart repos on Google Cloud Storage privately.

* [Helm GitHub](https://github.com/web-seven/helm-github) - Plugin that detects and install Helm Charts from GitHub Public/Private Repository Releases.

* [Helm Schema](https://github.com/dadav/helm-schema) - Auto-generate jsonschema files for helm charts.

* [Helm Schema Gen](https://github.com/karuppiah7890/helm-schema-gen) - So that you don't have to write `values.schema.json` by hand from scratch for your Helm 3 charts

* [Helm Datree](https://github.com/datreeio/helm-datree) - Plugin to prevent Kubernetes misconfigurations by ensuring that Helm charts follow best practices as well as your organization’s policies

* [Helm Teller](https://github.com/SpectralOps/helm-teller) - Plugin that allows you to manage deployment configuration and secrets from multiple providers securely with [Teller](https://github.com/SpectralOps/teller)

* [Helm Release](https://github.com/JovianX/helm-release-plugin) - Plugin that pulls(re-creates) Helm charts from deployed releases, also allows update values of deployed releases without supplying the chart(for modified or custom charts, or when there's no access to the chart)

* [Helm Compose](https://github.com/seacrew/helm-compose) - Plugin that allows coupled multi release handling of one or many charts. With full configuration-as-code capabilities in a single yaml file similar to docker-compose.



Tools, Extras

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Helm-related tools

* [Keel.sh](https://keel.sh) - Continuous delivery for Kubernetes - enhances Helm with auto upgrades and other cool features

* [Helmfile](https://github.com/roboll/helmfile) - Helmfile is a declarative spec for deploying helm charts, supports flexible templating scenarios

* [Helmsman](https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman) - Helmsman provides a declarative way of installing charts, features terraform-like desired state file approach and security enhancements

* [Reckoner](https://github.com/FairwindsOps/reckoner) - Reckoner is a tool to simplify management and installation of multiple Helm chart releases

* [Monocular](https://github.com/helm/monocular) - A web-based application that enables the search and discovery of charts from multiple Helm Chart repositories

* [Ship](https://github.com/replicatedhq/ship) - A tool that makes it easy to watch and apply updates to Helm charts and integrates [Kustomize](https://kustomize.io) patches and overlays

* [Brigade](https://github.com/brigadecore/brigade) - A tool for running scriptable, automated tasks in the cloud — as part of your Kubernetes cluster

* [Helm-Starter-Istio](https://github.com/salesforce/helm-starter-istio) - A helm starter for creating [Istio](https://istio.io/) managed services

* [Helm Broker](https://github.com/kyma-project/helm-broker) - A Service Broker which exposes Helm charts as Service Classes in the [Service Catalog](https://svc-cat.io/)

* [Chart Releaser](https://github.com/helm/chart-releaser) - Helps Turn GitHub Repositories into Helm Chart Repositories

* [ChartMuseum](https://chartmuseum.com/) - ChartMuseum is an open-source, easy to deploy, Helm Chart Repository server.

* [Helmify](https://github.com/arttor/helmify) - Generates a Helm chart from Kubernetes yamls

* [Helm Docs](https://github.com/norwoodj/helm-docs) - Auto-generates documentation from helm charts into markdown files

* [Readme Generator](https://github.com/bitnami-labs/readme-generator-for-helm) - Autogenerate Helm Charts READMEs' tables based on values YAML file metadata.

* [Chart Viewer](https://github.com/ecojuntak/chart-viewer) - Helps you inspect and compare chart template and also rendered manifest

* [werf](https://werf.io/) - A CLI tool for implementing CI/CD best practices using an extended version of Helm under the hood for deployment



Community

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Forums, discussion groups, SO tags.



* [Helm Slack](http://slack.k8s.io/) - #helm-users channel on Kubernetes Slack

* [StackOverflow Kubernetes-Helm](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/kubernetes-helm) - Stack Overflow threads tagged kubernetes-helm

* [StackOverflow Helm](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/helm) - Stack Overflow threads tagged Helm



Contributing

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Contributions are most welcome!



This list is just getting started, please contribute to make it super awesome.



Check out the [Contributing Guidelines](https://github.com/cdwv/awesome-helm/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).



License

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Creative Commons License
awesome-helm by CodeWave is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.



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