什么是Helm？这可不是暗黑破坏神里装备的名称：头盔，而是Kubernetes的一个包管理工具，用来简化Kubernetes应用的部署和管理。我们Helm和Kubernetes的关系，我们可以理解成yum和CentOS，apt-get和Ubuntu的关系。

Helm由两部分组成，客户端helm和服务端tiller。

其中tiller运行在Kubernetes集群上，管理chart，而客户端helm就是一个命令行工具，可在本地运行，一般运行在持续集成/持续交付的服务器上 。

下图是helm的架构图。

我们现在就来试用下helm。

首先安装helm客户端。

下载helm执行文件的压缩包：

wget -O helm.tar.gz https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-helm/helm-v2.11.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz tar -xzf helm.tar.gz

解压完毕后，将helm文件移到目录/usr/local/bin/helm下面：

mv linux-amd64/helm /usr/local/bin/helm

给这个文件加上执行权限：

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/helm

首先使用-namespace参数指定使用的namespace，我例子里的命名空间是part-0110:

helm init --tiller-namespace part-0110 --service-account access

helm init --tiller-namespace part-0110 --service-account access

Creating /home/vagrant/.helm

Creating /home/vagrant/.helm/repository

Creating /home/vagrant/.helm/repository/cache

Creating /home/vagrant/.helm/repository/local

Creating /home/vagrant/.helm/plugins

Creating /home/vagrant/.helm/starters

Creating /home/vagrant/.helm/cache/archive

Creating /home/vagrant/.helm/repository/repositories.yaml

Adding stable repo with URL: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com

Adding local repo with URL: http://127.0.0.1:8879/charts

$HELM_HOME has been configured at /home/vagrant/.helm.

Tiller (the Helm server-side component) has been installed into your Kubernetes Cluster.

Please note: by default, Tiller is deployed with an insecure ‘allow unauthenticated users’ policy.

For more information on securing your installation see: https://docs.helm.sh/using_helm/#securing-your-helm-installation

Happy Helming!

从helm的init命令输出，我们可以观察到，该命令生成了大量和helm server交互所必须的repository。

现在可以使用helm version命令行参数查看helm客户端和服务器端的版本号：

helm version --tiller-connection-timeout=5 --tiller-namespace part-0110

vagrant@vagrant:~/.kube$ helm version --tiller-connection-timeout=5 --tiller-namespace part-0110

Client: &version.Version{SemVer:“v2.9.1”, GitCommit:“20adb27c7c5868466912eebdf6664e7390ebe710”, GitTreeState:“clean”}

Server: &version.Version{SemVer:“v2.9.1”, GitCommit:“20adb27c7c5868466912eebdf6664e7390ebe710”, GitTreeState:“clean”}

使用命令helm repo list查看helm仓库列表：

根据名称搜索helm chart：

helm search chaoskube

使用下面的命令行安装chart。命令行中的参数jerry可以根据需要改成你自己期望的名字。

helm install --name jerry stable/chaoskube --set namespaces=part-0110 --set rbac.serviceAccountName=access --tiller-namespace part-0110 --debug

下面是helm install命令的输出，供您参考：

vagrant@vagrant:~/.kube$ helm install --name jerry stable/chaoskube --set namespaces=part-0110 --set rbac.serviceAccountName=access --tiller-namespace part-0110 --debug

[debug] Created tunnel using local port: ‘36408’

[debug] SERVER: “127.0.0.1:36408”

[debug] Original chart version: “”

[debug] Fetched stable/chaoskube to /home/vagrant/.helm/cache/archive/chaoskube-0.10.0.tgz

[debug] CHART PATH: /home/vagrant/.helm/cache/archive/chaoskube-0.10.0.tgz

NAME: jerry

REVISION: 1

RELEASED: Thu Nov 15 16:37:19 2018

CHART: chaoskube-0.10.0

USER-SUPPLIED VALUES:

namespaces: part-0110

rbac:

serviceAccountName: access

COMPUTED VALUES:

affinity: {}

annotations: null

debug: false

dryRun: true

excludedDaysOfYear: null

excludedTimesOfDay: null

excludedWeekdays: null

image: quay.io/linki/chaoskube

imageTag: v0.10.0

interval: 10m

labels: null

minimumAge: 0s

name: chaoskube

namespaces: part-0110

nodeSelector: {}

priorityClassName: “”

rbac:

create: false

serviceAccountName: access

replicas: 1

resources: {}

timezone: UTC

tolerations: []

HOOKS:

MANIFEST:

---

Source: chaoskube/templates/deployment.yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1beta1

kind: Deployment

metadata:

name: jerry-chaoskube

labels:

app: chaoskube

heritage: “Tiller”

release: “jerry”

chart: chaoskube-0.10.0

spec:

replicas: 1

selector:

matchLabels:

app: chaoskube

release: jerry

template:

metadata:

labels:

app: chaoskube

heritage: “Tiller”

release: “jerry”

chart: chaoskube-0.10.0

spec:

containers:

• name: chaoskube

image: quay.io/linki/chaoskube:v0.10.0

args:

• –interval=10m

• –labels=

• –annotations=

• –namespaces=part-0110

• –excluded-weekdays=

• –excluded-times-of-day=

• –excluded-days-of-year=

• –timezone=UTC

• –minimum-age=0s

resources:

{}

serviceAccountName: “access”

LAST DEPLOYED: Thu Nov 15 16:37:19 2018

NAMESPACE: part-0110

STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:

==> v1beta1/Deployment

NAME DESIRED CURRENT UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE

jerry-chaoskube 1 1 1 0 2s

==> v1/Pod(related)

NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE

jerry-chaoskube-6689695476-kchtn 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 1s

NOTES:

chaoskube is running and will kill arbitrary pods every 10m.

You can follow the logs to see what chaoskube does:

POD=$(kubectl -n part-0110 get pods -l=‘release=jerry-chaoskube’ --output=jsonpath=’{.items[0].metadata.name}’)

kubectl -n part-0110 logs -f $POD

You are running in dry-run mode. No pod is actually terminated.

使用helm list命令，现在就能查看到刚才安装的名为jerry的chart了。

helm list --tiller-namespace part-0110

使用helm命令查看这个chart的明细（类似kubectl describe pod XXX )

helm status jerry --tiller-namespace part-0110

上图也显示了自动生成的pod名称为jerry-chaoskube-6689695476-kchtn，可以用kubectl log命令查看其运行日志：

kubectl log jerry-chaoskube-6689695476-kchtn

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