github.com/cloudposse/helm@v2.2.3+incompatible/docs/helm/helm_init.md (about) 1 ## helm init 2 3 initialize Helm on both client and server 4 5 ### Synopsis 6 7 8 9 This command installs Tiller (the helm server side component) onto your 10 Kubernetes Cluster and sets up local configuration in $HELM_HOME (default ~/.helm/) 11 12 As with the rest of the Helm commands, 'helm init' discovers Kubernetes clusters 13 by reading $KUBECONFIG (default '~/.kube/config') and using the default context. 14 15 To set up just a local environment, use '--client-only'. That will configure 16 $HELM_HOME, but not attempt to connect to a remote cluster and install the Tiller 17 deployment. 18 19 When installing Tiller, 'helm init' will attempt to install the latest released 20 version. You can specify an alternative image with '--tiller-image'. For those 21 frequently working on the latest code, the flag '--canary-image' will install 22 the latest pre-release version of Tiller (e.g. the HEAD commit in the GitHub 23 repository on the master branch). 24 25 To dump a manifest containing the Tiller deployment YAML, combine the 26 '--dry-run' and '--debug' flags. 27 28 29 ``` 30 helm init 31 ``` 32 33 ### Options 34 35 ``` 36 --canary-image use the canary tiller image 37 -c, --client-only if set does not install tiller 38 --dry-run do not install local or remote 39 -i, --tiller-image string override tiller image 40 --upgrade upgrade if tiller is already installed 41 ``` 42 43 ### Options inherited from parent commands 44 45 ``` 46 --debug enable verbose output 47 --home string location of your Helm config. Overrides $HELM_HOME (default "~/.helm") 48 --host string address of tiller. Overrides $HELM_HOST 49 --kube-context string name of the kubeconfig context to use 50 --tiller-namespace string namespace of tiller (default "kube-system") 51 ``` 52 53 ### SEE ALSO 54 * [helm](helm.md) - The Helm package manager for Kubernetes. 55 56 ###### Auto generated by spf13/cobra on 15-Jan-2017