Introduction

Helm is one of the package managers for Kubernetes.

This package manager project was created by a company named Deis during the year 2015, which was later acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft began working on the project, with initial commit recorded on October 20, 2015, and released it at KubeCon on November under the brand name Helm Classic.

In January 2016, Helm Classic was merged with Google's Deployment Manager for Kubernetes, which is now called Helm. Helm later joined CNCF on June 1, 2018, released Helm Hub, now known as Artifact Hub and achieved graduated status within CNCF in April 2020.