Helm Artifact

Helm is an open source package manager for Kubernetes. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps service supports deployment of Helm charts to Kubernetes Engine (OKE) cluster.

Helm uses a packaging format called charts. A chart is a collection of files that describe a related set of Kubernetes resources. They contain templates of Kubernetes YAML manifest files and a values.yaml file to supply the default template values. A single Helm chart can be used to define something simple such as an NGINX service or a complex full-stack web application. For more details, see Helm Chart File Structure.

Every chart must have a version number that follows the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 format. Helm v2 and later uses version numbers as release markers. Charts stored in the repositories are identified by their name and version. Example: nginx 1.2.1

In the OCI DevOps service, you can add a Helm chart for deployment or specify directly the Helm commands as an inline artifact.