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Getting started

The arc of the book, a project-local Helm 4 lab, and a tour of Helm with a public OCI chart.

Overview

Outline

The nine parts and thirty-one chapters, and how one application grows from raw manifests into a signed, GitOps-delivered chart.

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Chapter 1

Prerequisites and lab setup

Install Helm 4.3.0 and the supporting tools into the repository, isolate every Helm state directory, and bring up a minikube profile with operators only.

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Chapter 2

A tour of Helm 4

What Helm is, how a release differs from a chart, and the install, list, status and uninstall cycle on a public OCI chart, plus what changed from Helm 3 to Helm 4.

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Helm for Developers

A chaptered, hands-on tutorial for Helm 4: one Python 3.14 (3.15-ready) FastAPI shipping application taken from raw manifests to a signed, GitOps-delivered chart on minikube and OpenShift.

Tutorial

  • Outline
  • Prerequisites
  • Helm 4 tour
  • Roadmap

Reference

  • Helm docs ↗
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  • Issues ↗
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