Installing Helm - Solution

  • One method of installing the Helm package:
    curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/main/scripts/get-helm-3
    chmod 700 get_helm.sh
    ./get_helm.sh
    
  • Identify the version of helm with:
    helm version
    
  • Which environment variable can help show if helm is running in debug mode?
    helm --help
    
  • Check under Environment variables.
  • The answer is:
    $HELM_DEBUG                        | indicate whether or not Helm is running in Debug mode
    
  • A command line flag that enables verbose output is --debug.

  • How to check valid commands with helm get, use helm get --help
  • These are the available commands:
    Available Commands:
    all         download all information for a named release
    hooks       download all hooks for a named release
    manifest    download the manifest for a named release
    metadata    This command fetches metadata for a given release
    notes       download the notes for a named release
    values      download the values file for a named release
    

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