Helm

Use Terraform to deploy Helm charts

by Archie To, 17 July 2024

We’ve talked about Terraform and Helm. Those surely are cool technologies. But you know what’s even cooler? When you combine both of those.

This article will show you how to use Terraform to deploy Helm charts, a very popular practice for our infrastructure in ARCsoft. This article requires some prerequisites: readers must read about Terraform and Helm first. So if you haven’t, go read those, I can wait.

Why use Terraform to deploy Helm charts?

You might ask: “Why don’t just use helm install? It gets the job done.” You’re not wrong, but below are the reasons why our team uses Terraform for the job.