• Part 1: Helm2 without Tiller
• Part 2: (this article) Helm3 without Tiller

Helm3 is here, and without the server side component Tiller. Let’s check it out!

Download the Beta

Check for latest beta releases on https://github.com/helm/helm/releases

I used beta3: https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.3

I downloaded and copied it to:

sudo cp helm /usr/local/bin/helm3

For more information about the changes in Helm3 checkout this link:

https://github.com/helm/community/blob/master/helm-v3/000-helm-v3.md

Grafana

Grafana is the open source analytics & monitoring solution for every database.

helm3 repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.comhelm3 repo update

We can just use the existing Helm2 charts (most of the time) and run:

kubectl create ns grafana
helm3 upgrade --install grafana stable/grafana -n grafana

Namespaces are important now

helm ls won’t show anything, we have to specify the namespace with it:

helm3 -n grafana ls

Access Grafana Interface

Now we can get the admin password and create a port-forward:

kubectl get secret -n grafana grafana -o jsonpath="{.data.admin-password}" | base64 --decodekubectl port-forward -n grafana service/grafana 3000:80

Open http://localhost:3000 to access the Grafana interface.

Loki

Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

First we add the repo:

helm3 repo add loki https://grafana.github.io/loki/charts
helm3 repo update

Then we create a namespace and install it:

kubectl create ns loki-stack
helm3 upgrade --install loki-stack -n=loki-stack loki/loki-stack
helm3 -n loki-stack ls

Done. Helm3 looks promising!