Helm is a package management format used for Helm Charts, which are effectively recipes for Kubernetes.
You can set up an Helm proxy repository to access a remote repository location, for example to proxy the stable charts at https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
To proxy a Helm repository, you simply create a new 'helm (proxy)' as documented in Repository Management in details. Minimal configuration steps are:
- Define 'Name'
- Define URL for 'Remote storage' e.g. https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com/
- Select a 'Blob store' for 'Storage'
Configuring Helm to use Nexus Repository is fairly easy! Once you have Helm up and running you'll want to run a command similar to the following:
helm repo add nexusrepo http://localhost:8081/repository/helm-proxy/
Replace nexusrepo with what you'd like the repo to be called, and the url with what the full url to your proxy repository is.
From that point you can install helm charts using a command similar to the following:
helm install nexusrepo/mongodb
If everything went smoothly, the command above will install the latest version of mongodb.
You can browse Helm repositories in the user interface inspecting the components and assets and their details, as described in Browsing Repositories and Repository Groups.