How To Install Helm3 on Windows10

 Introduction

Helm is a tool that streamlines installing and managing Kubernetes applications.Think of it like apt/yum/homebrew for Kubernetes.

- Helm renders your templates and communicates with the Kubernetes API

- Helm runs on your laptop, CI/CD, or wherever you want it to run.

-Helm3 bring lot more capabilities and feature

Deploying applications to Kubernetes is a complicated process. Many tools simplify this process, and one of them is Helm.

Prerequisites

A system running with window 10

Access to a command line/terminal

A Kubernetes cluster installed and configured

To download Helm on Windows:

1. Follow the link below to download the latest Helm version.
https://github.com/helm/helm/releases

2. Locate the Windows amd64 download link from the Installation platform list and click on it to download.

3. Next, extract the windows-amd64 zip to the preferred location.

4.Example->C:\Users\hss\Downloads\helm-v3.5.2-windows-amd64\windows-amd64

5. Set enviromnet variable and point to helm.exe

6. Your done....Goto command line and start executng helm commands

C:\Users\>helm version

version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.4.2", GitCommit:"167aac70832d3a384f65f9745335e9fb40169dc2", GitTreeState:"dirty", GoVersion:"go1.15.7"}

Happy helming!