2. Installing Cluster Management Tools

The Helm package manager is used to deploy services to the Kubernetes cluster. To deploy services to the Kubernetes cluster both kubectl and the helm cli must be installed to your local machine.

I addition to installing kubectl and the helm cli, kubectl must be configured to connect to the newly deployed Kubernetes cluster. This is done by downloading the new kubeconfig file created with the new Kubernetes cluster.

1. Install the kubectl CLI tool.

Kubectl install instructions

2. Install the helm Kubernetes package manager.

Helm install instructions

3. Download the kubeconfig file for your previously deployed Kubernetes cluster.

Kubeconfig installation instructions