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Raspberry Pi 4 cluster Series - Install helm3¶

Installing helm can best be done as follow:

# Download & install Helm
$ curl -fsSL -o get_helm.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/main/scripts/get-helm-3
$ chmod +x get_helm.sh 
$ ./get_helm.sh
Error: could not find tiller
Helm v3.16.4 is available. Changing from version .
Downloading https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.16.4-linux-arm64.tar.gz
Verifying checksum... Done.
Preparing to install helm into /usr/local/bin
helm installed into /usr/local/bin/helm

To see all the options that come with helm command use the --help option. For example:

$ helm repo list
NAME        URL                                  
longhorn    https://charts.longhorn.io           
kiwigrid    https://kiwigrid.github.io           
metallb     https://metallb.github.io/metallb    
traefik     https://helm.traefik.io/traefik      
grafana     https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts

If you want helm command to be available on all your nodes you can use ansible:

$ ansible pi -m copy -b -a "src=/usr/local/bin/helm dest=/usr/local/bin/helm mode=0755"

References¶

[1] Helm documentation

[2] Installing Helm

Edit history¶

• initial post on 13/Jan/2025