Step-by-step guide on how to install Helm on various operating systems

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Helm is a powerful tool for managing Kubernetes applications, but before you can use it, you need to install it on your local machine. Here's a guide to help you install Helm on various operating systems.

Installing Helm on Windows

1. Go to the Helm releases page at https://github.com/helm/helm/releases.
2. Download the latest Windows executable file (ending with ".exe").
3. Double-click the downloaded file to start the installation wizard.
4. Follow the prompts to complete the installation.

Installing Helm on macOS

1. Open a terminal window.
2. Install Homebrew by running the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"         

1. Once Homebrew is installed, run the following command to install Helm:

brew install helm         

Installing Helm on Linux

The instructions for installing Helm on Linux depend on your specific Linux distribution. Here are instructions for some popular distributions:

Ubuntu/Debian

1. Open a terminal window.
2. Run the following commands to download and install Helm:

curl https://baltocdn.com/helm/signing.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https --yes
echo "deb https://baltocdn.com/helm/stable/debian/ all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/helm-stable-debian.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install helm        

Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora

1. Open a terminal window.
2. Run the following commands to download and install Helm:

sudo curl -fsSL -o /etc/yum.repos.d/helm.repo https://baltocdn.com/helm/stable/rpm/helm.repo
sudo yum install helm        

Once you've installed Helm on your local machine, you're ready to start managing your Kubernetes applications more easily with Helm charts. Tomorrow, we get into more interesting part of learning - Project!

Happy charting!

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