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Helm OCI support in JFrog Artifactory

If you’re building apps to run on Kubernetes, chances are you’re using Helm. If you fall into that category, we have good news for you: Helm users will now benefit from JFrog Artifactory’s support of Helm OCI registries in JFrog Artifactory. JFrog’s expanded Helm OCI support Since the release of Helm v3.8.0, the Helm client …

Best Practices for Migrating to Helm v3 for the Enterprise

At JFrog, we rely on Kubernetes and Helm to orchestrate our systems and keep our workloads running and up-to-date. Our JFrog Cloud services had initially been deployed with Helm v2 and Tillerless plugin for enhanced security, but we have now successfully migrated our many thousands of releases to Helm v3.  Like many SaaS service providers, …

Simply the Best: JFrog’s Top DevOps Articles from 2020

In 2020, JFrog’s experts published a treasure trove of content — blogs, articles, infographics, and more — to share insights and advice with our customers and the DevOps community at large. In case you missed them — or want to re-read them — here’s a list of the most popular ones. They range from a …

Steer OCI to Kubernetes with Artifactory and Helm 3

With the latest release of JFrog Artifactory, your Kubernetes world just got a lot bigger. Artifactory’s Docker registries are now compliant with the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Repository support for images compatible with OCI and support for the Helm 3 client mean you can run K8s with a high degree of versatility. Once you’re no …

Charting Helm Hub Through Artifactory

A great many Helm charts dot the landscape of the internet, and it can be hard to know about them all or their whereabouts. To help solve that, Helm created Helm Hub to provide a central catalog of the growing number of public Helm chart repositories.  Browsing the awesome Helm Hub UI, you can see …

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Steering Straight with Helm Charts Best Practices

Kubernetes, the popular orchestration tool for container applications, is named for the Greek word for “pilot,” or the one who steers the ship. But as in any journey, the navigator can only be as successful as the available map. An application’s Helm chart is that map, a collection of files that can be deployed from …

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Raising Helm – to Enterprise Scale

Reposted from the original which was posted on the AWS Open Source Blog TL/DR: Package managers in general are awful, but Helm, the package manager of Kubernetes, is… not bad at all. Of the seven deadly sins of package managers, Helm commits only two, and these are easily fixable. We’ll be explaining how below. We aren’t …

Is Your Helm 2 Secure and Scalable?

Recently Rimas Mocevicius, a Kubernaut at JFrog and co-founder of Helm, spoke at our recent JFrog Helm meetup about the security issues relating to Helm 2 and offered an elegant workaround to secure your k8s cluster. Tiller Poses a Potential Security Threat In Helm 2, a new server-side component called “Tiller” was added. Tiller is …