Setup Helm
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For the Helm labs of this workshop we will be using Helm Version 3. If you are running the labs using the IBM Cloud Shell, we need to complete a couple of setup steps before we proceed. This section is broken up into the following steps:
If you do not already have it open from the workshop setup section, go ahead and open the Cloud shell.
From the IBM Cloud Home Page, select the terminal icon in the upper lefthand menu.
Note: Ensure the cloud shell is using the same account where your cluster is provisioned. Ensure that the account name shown in the top right of the screen, next to
Current accountis the correct one.
The Cloud Shell comes with both Helm 2 and Helm 3 versions. To make sure we use the Helm Version 3 variant, we will create an alias.
Run the following commands to install Helm Version 3
The result is that you should have Helm Version 3 installed.
If you have not setup your kubectl to access your cluster, you can do so in the Cloud Shell.
Run the ibmcloud ks clusters command to verify the terminal and setup for access to the cluster
Configure the kubectl cli available within the terminal for access to your cluster. If you previously stored your cluster name to an environment variable, use that (ie. $CLUSTER_NAME), otherwise copy and paste your cluster name from the previous commands output to the $CLUSTER_NAME portion below.
Verify access to the Kubernetes API by getting the namespaces.
You should see output similar to the following, if so, then your're ready to continue.
