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Kubernetes Tutorial — Part 10: Helm Charts and Package Management

By Suraj Ahir April 06, 2026 7 min read

A simple app needs a Deployment, Service, ConfigMap, Secret, and Ingress — five YAML files. Now imagine managing 20 microservices across multiple environments. Helm solves this as a package manager for Kubernetes.

helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
helm install my-postgres bitnami/postgresql \
  --set auth.postgresPassword=secretpass \
  --set primary.persistence.size=20Gi

helm list
helm upgrade my-postgres bitnami/postgresql --set primary.persistence.size=50Gi
helm rollback my-postgres 1

helm create my-app
# Creates: Chart.yaml, values.yaml, templates/

Different environments get different values files — values-staging.yaml, values-production.yaml. In Part 11, we set up monitoring and observability.