Install Helm on a Windows 10 Machine

In this blog post, I will show you how to install Helm on a Windows 10 machine using the most efficient way.

About Helm

Helm, also known as Helm charts is a package manager for Kubernetes similar to YUM on Linux. Using Helm we can install applications like WordPress on AKS clusters.

Install Chocolatey

On a Windows machines, Helm can be installed using two methods; The first method is that you can download the executable save it on your machine and add it to the Windows PATH. or using a package management tool like Chocolatey for Windows.

In this post, I will go with the Chocolatey since it is the recommended method. If you don’t have Chocolatey install go ahead and install it using the following script. If you have it installed skip this part.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

Install Helm

To install Helm using Chocolatey, run the following command and type Y to start the installation.

choco install kubernetes-helm

The screenshot for the installation is shown below:

To view all the Helm command type the the following command:

helm


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