You can use the ack-helm-manager component to manage custom Helm charts that are hosted on Container Registry Enterprise Edition. If you want to install Helm charts from Container Registry Enterprise Edition, you must install ack-helm-manager. This topic introduces ack-slo-manager and describes the usage notes and release notes for ack-slo-manager.

Introduction

If you want to configure custom features, you can install custom Helm charts. Before you install custom Helm charts, you must install ack-helm-manager on the Add-ons page of the Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) console.

Prerequisites

Install ack-helm-manager

To install ack-helm-manager, perform the following steps:

  1. Log on to the ACK console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane of the ACK console, click Clusters.
  3. On the Clusters page, find the cluster that you want to manage and choose More > Manage Components in the Actions column.
  4. On the Add-ons page, search for ack-helm-manager. Find ack-helm-manager and click Install.
  5. In the message that appears, click OK.
  6. On the Add-ons page, check the installation progress of ack-helm-manager.
    After the installation process is completed, Installed is displayed for ack-helm-manager.

Usage notes

  1. Log on to the ACK console.
  2. In the left-side navigation pane of the ACK console, click Clusters.
  3. On the Clusters page, find the cluster that you want to manage and click the name of the cluster or click Details in the Actions column. The details page of the cluster appears.
  4. In the left-side navigation pane of the details page, choose Applications > Helm.
  5. On the Helm page, click Deploy. On the Basic Information wizard page, set the parameters based on the following table.
    Parameter Description
    Application Name Enter a custom name.
    Namespace Select the namespace in which you want to install the Helm chart.
    Source Select ACR EE.
    Instance You can set Region, Instance, and Repository to filter Helm charts.
  6. Click Next.
  7. On the Parameters wizard page, use the default settings for the parameters. Click OK.

Release notes

March 2022

Version Image address Release date Description Impact
0.1.0-9397c1f7 registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/acs/helm-manager:0.1.0-9397c1f7 2022-03-22 ack-helm-manager is released. No impact on workloads