A First Look at Helm 3

Helm has been widely publicized as the package manager for Kubernetes. We’ve seen the need over and over for Helm. Unfortunately, Helm 2 requires Tiller and Tiller opens a lot of security questions. In particular, in a multi-user, multi-organization, and/or multi-tenant cluster, securing the Tiller service account (or accounts) was difficult and problematic. As a result, we’ve never recommended our clients use Helm in production. With the recent announcement of the first release candidate for Helm 3, it’s time to take another look as this version no longer requires or uses Tiller so many (most) of our security concerns should be gone.

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