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# Deploy applications with Helm on Amazon EKS
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The Helm package manager for Kubernetes helps you install and manage applications on your Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see the [Helm documentation](https://docs.helm.sh/). This topic helps you install and run the Helm binaries so that you can install and manage charts using the Helm CLI on your local system.

**Important**  
Before you can install Helm charts on your Amazon EKS cluster, you must configure `kubectl` to work for Amazon EKS. If you have not already done this, see [Connect kubectl to an EKS cluster by creating a kubeconfig file](create-kubeconfig.md) before proceeding. If the following command succeeds for your cluster, you’re properly configured.  

```
kubectl get svc
```

1. Run the appropriate command for your client operating system.
   + If you’re using macOS with [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/), install the binaries with the following command.

     ```
     brew install helm
     ```
   + For more installation options, see [Installing Helm](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/) in the Helm Docs.
**Note**  
If you get a message that `openssl` must first be installed, you can install it with the following command.

```
sudo yum install openssl
```

1. To pick up the new binary in your `PATH`, Close your current terminal window and open a new one.

1. See the version of Helm that you installed.

   ```
   helm version --template='{{ .Version }}{{ "\n" }}'
   ```

   An example output is as follows.

   ```
   v3.17.2
   ```

1. Make sure the version installed is compatible with your cluster version. Check [Supported Version Skew](https://helm.sh/docs/topics/version_skew/#supported-version-skew) to learn more. For example, if you are running with `3.17.x`, supported Kubernetes version should not out of the range of `1.29.x` \$1 `1.32.x`.

1. At this point, you can run any Helm commands (such as `helm install chart-name `) to install, modify, delete, or query Helm charts in your cluster. If you’re new to Helm and don’t have a specific chart to install, you can:
   + Experiment by installing an example chart. See [Install an example chart](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/quickstart#install-an-example-chart) in the Helm [Quickstart guide](https://helm.sh/docs/intro/quickstart/).
   + Create an example chart and push it to Amazon ECR. For more information, see [Pushing a Helm chart](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/push-oci-artifact.html) in the *Amazon Elastic Container Registry User Guide*.
   + Install an Amazon EKS chart from the [eks-charts](https://github.com/aws/eks-charts#eks-charts)GitHub repo or from [ArtifactHub](https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?page=1&repo=aws).