I’ll keep it practical—imagine you’re working on your DevConnect project locally in WSL with Kind/Minikube before moving to EKS.

First thing after installing Helm.

helm version

Shows the Helm client version and confirms installation.

Helm charts live in repositories.

Example: add Bitnami repo.

helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami

Example you will use later:

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Loki
• Jaeger

helm repo update

Fetches the latest charts from all added repos.

Very common command.

Search Helm repositories.

helm search repo prometheus

Example results might include:

• kube-prometheus-stack
• prometheus-node-exporter

Deploy an application to Kubernetes.

Example:

helm install my-nginx bitnami/nginx

For your project:

helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack

See what Helm has deployed.

helm list

Example output:

NAME        NAMESPACE   STATUS
prometheus  monitoring  deployed
grafana     monitoring  deployed

helm status prometheus

Shows:

• deployed resources
• notes
• service endpoints

Used when updating configuration.

Example:

helm upgrade prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack

Or with custom values:

helm upgrade prometheus ./chart -f values.yaml

Very common in production.

Remove an application.

helm uninstall prometheus

Deletes all Kubernetes resources created by the chart.

Create your own chart.

helm create devconnect

This generates:

devconnect/
  Chart.yaml
  values.yaml
  templates/

You will use this for your DevConnect application.

Convert chart into a distributable package.

helm package devconnect

Creates:

devconnect-0.1.0.tgz

Useful for chart repositories.

See configurable parameters.

helm show values bitnami/nginx

Example output:

replicaCount: 1
service:
  type: ClusterIP

Very useful before installation.

helm install devconnect ./devconnect -f values.yaml

Example changes:

• replicas
• image
• service type

See the configuration used for deployment.

helm get values devconnect

Helps debug production issues.

One of the most important commands.

helm install devconnect ./devconnect --dry-run --debug

This:

• validates templates
• shows generated YAML
• prevents breaking production

DevOps engineers use this a lot.

Example workflow:

helm repo add prometheus-community https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts
helm repo update

helm install prometheus prometheus-community/kube-prometheus-stack \
-n monitoring --create-namespace

helm install grafana grafana/grafana -n monitoring

helm install loki grafana/loki-stack -n monitoring

helm install jaeger jaegertracing/jaeger -n monitoring

If interviewer asks “Why Helm instead of raw YAML?”

You can say:

Helm simplifies Kubernetes deployments by templating manifests, managing application versions, and enabling reusable configurations using values.yaml.

Short, clean, and professional.