Helm Repositories

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that uses helm-charts to describe application structure and manage deployments. See Helm Docs.

Nexus Repository provides proxy, hosted and group support to helm package manager. Use Nexus Repository to publish charts and provenance files to a private hosted repository. As of release 3.71.0, you can only upload components to a root Helm repository.

Getting Started with Helm in Nexus

Explore the following topics to know how to configure and use Helm with Nexus.

1. Nexus for Helm
2. Create a Helm Repository
3. Configure Helm with Nexus
4. Helm CLI Usage

Nexus for Helm

• Proxy Repository: Proxy NVIDIA NIM repositories.
• Hosted Repository: Supports uploading provenance files with the extension .tgz.prov.
• Group Repository: Expose multiple repositories (proxy, hosted and group) with a single URL and simplify dependency management. Helm group repositories are available from version 3.92.
• Reduce time and bandwidth usage when accessing remote Helm charts.
• Share Helm charts more easily within the organization.
• Supports Helm 2 and Helm 3.