You can now start deploying software. To find available charts you can use the search command.

For example, to deploy Redis we need to find a Redis chart.

helm search redis

We can identify more information with the inspect command.

helm inspect stable/redis

Use the install command to deploy the chart to your cluster.

helm install stable/redis

Helm will now launch the required pods. You can view all packages using helm ls

If you receive an error that Helm could not find a ready tiller pod, it means that helm is still deploying. Wait a few moments for the tiller Docker Image to finish downloading.

In the next step we'll verify the deployment status.

Helm deploys all the pods, replication controllers and services. Use kubectl to find out what was deployed.

kubectl get all

The pod will be in a pending state while the Docker Image is downloaded and until a Persistent Volume is available.

kubectl apply -f pv.yaml

Redis needs permissions to write chmod 777 -R /mnt/data*

Once complete it will move into a running state. You'll now have a Redis Cluster running on top of Kubernetes.

The helm could be provided with a more friendly name, such as:

helm install --name my-release stable/redis