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Testimonials
We got to meet Michael from MeteorOps through one of our employees. We needed DevOps help and guidance and Michael and the team provided all of it from the very beginning. They did everything from dev support to infrastructure design and configuration to helping during Production incidents like any one of our own employees. They actually became an integral part of our organization which says a lot about their personal attitude and dedication.
From my experience, working with MeteorOps brings high value to any company at almost any stage. They are uncompromising professionals, who achieve their goal no matter what.
I was impressed at how quickly they were able to handle new tasks at a high quality and value.
They are very knowledgeable in their area of expertise.
You guys are really a bunch of talented geniuses and it's a pleasure and a privilege to work with you.
Working with MeteorOps was exactly the solution we looked for. We met a professional, involved, problem solving DevOps team, that gave us an impact in a short term period.
Thanks to MeteorOps, infrastructure changes have been completed without any errors. They provide excellent ideas, manage tasks efficiently, and deliver on time. They communicate through virtual meetings, email, and a messaging app. Overall, their experience in Kubernetes and AWS is impressive.
I was impressed with the amount of professionalism, communication, and speed of delivery.
We were impressed with their commitment to the project.
They have been great at adjusting and improving as we have worked together.
Good consultants execute on task and deliver as planned. Better consultants overdeliver on their tasks. Great consultants become full technology partners and provide expertise beyond their scope.
I am happy to call MeteorOps my technology partners as they overdelivered, provide high-level expertise and I recommend their services as a very happy customer.
Nguyen is a champ. He's fast and has great communication. Well done!
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How it works?
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that deploys applications as versioned, reusable “charts.” Platform and DevOps teams use Helm to standardize releases, reduce repetitive YAML management, and make deployments more consistent across environments such as development, staging, and production. By combining templates, values files, and release history, Helm helps teams ship changes with repeatable configuration and clearer operational control.
Helm typically runs in CI/CD pipelines and cluster administration workflows, where charts are stored in repositories and promoted between environments with environment-specific values. It is commonly used to manage both internal services and third-party dependencies on Kubernetes.
- Chart-based packaging for repeatable application installs and upgrades
- Templating and parameterization via values files for environment-specific configuration
- Release versioning and rollback support to improve operational safety
- Dependency management to bundle and coordinate related Kubernetes components
Orchestration systems decide where and when workloads run on a cluster of machines (physical or virtual). On top of that, orchestration systems usually help manage the lifecycle of the workloads running on them. Nowadays, these systems are usually used to orchestrate containers, with the most popular one being Kubernetes.
There are many advantages to using Orchestration tools:
- Improve the utilization of CPU, memory, and storage usage by running many processes on a single machine
- Manage the entire lifecycle of the orchestrated workloads: pre & post initialization & termination
- Control the scale of workloads and the scale of their underlying infrastructure separately
- Centralized management of workloads and infrastructure
Helm is a Kubernetes package manager that deploys applications as versioned, reusable charts. It is used to standardize releases, reduce manual YAML management, and make Kubernetes deployments repeatable across environments.
- Packages Kubernetes resources into charts, keeping application manifests, values, and metadata organized as a single deployable unit.
- Supports repeatable installs and upgrades, enabling consistent releases across dev, staging, and production clusters.
- Provides versioning plus upgrade and rollback workflows, making it safer to ship changes and recover quickly from failed releases.
- Uses templating and values files to parameterize deployments, reducing duplication while keeping environment-specific differences explicit.
- Manages dependencies via subcharts and chart repositories, simplifying installation of multi-service stacks and shared components.
- Enables GitOps-friendly workflows by keeping chart source and configuration in Git, aligning with common Kubernetes delivery practices.
- Integrates with CI/CD pipelines to automate release steps, including linting, packaging, and promotion of chart versions.
- Encourages standardization through reusable chart patterns, which helps teams enforce conventions for labels, resources, probes, and security settings.
- Works well with private registries and OCI-based distribution, improving control over artifact provenance and internal platform tooling.
Helm is a strong fit when teams need consistent, parameterized deployments for many services or environments. Trade-offs include template complexity for large charts and the need for disciplined chart design to avoid hard-to-debug rendering issues.
Common alternatives include Kustomize, Jsonnet, and GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux that can deploy Helm charts as part of a broader continuous delivery workflow.
Our experience with Helm helped us build repeatable deployment patterns, chart libraries, and operational playbooks that reduce the day-to-day effort of shipping and maintaining applications on Kubernetes for our clients.
Some of the things we did include:
- Designed and maintained reusable Helm chart templates (with sensible defaults) to standardize deployments across multiple teams and environments.
- Refactored application manifests into Helm charts, including support for both stateless and stateful workloads, and validated upgrades with safe rollback paths.
- Implemented GitOps delivery using ArgoCD with Helm, including environment overlays, promotion workflows, and drift detection.
- Integrated Helm into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., versioned packaging, linting, chart publishing, and automated deployment gates) and aligned releases with semantic versioning.
- Built umbrella charts to coordinate multi-service releases and manage dependency versioning across related workloads.
- Hardened charts with security and policy controls (image pinning, restricted security contexts, resource limits, and admission policy checks) and enforced them in CI.
- Automated full environment provisioning by combining Helm releases with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, enabling consistent cluster bootstraps from scratch.
- Improved reliability by adding health probes, disruption budgets, autoscaling parameters, and release strategies tuned for high-availability deployments.
- Standardized observability configuration (metrics and logging wiring) and packaged it into charts to reduce configuration drift across namespaces and clusters.
- Optimized existing community charts by reviewing values, removing unnecessary components, and right-sizing resources to improve performance and reduce cost.
This experience helped us accumulate significant knowledge across multiple Helm use-cases, and it enables us to deliver high-quality Helm setups that are maintainable, secure, and easy to operate over time.
Some of the ways we can help you use Helm effectively on Kubernetes include:
- Assess your existing charts and releases, then deliver a prioritized report covering reliability, security, and maintainability gaps.
- Create an adoption roadmap for standardizing Helm across teams, environments, and release workflows.
- Design and implement reusable Helm charts (including umbrella charts) to consistently deploy stateless and stateful workloads.
- Integrate Helm into CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for repeatable, auditable deployments.
- Introduce security guardrails with chart linting, policy checks, secrets-handling patterns, and pre-deploy validation in the delivery pipeline.
- Optimize chart values and Kubernetes resources for cost and performance, including right-sizing, rollout strategies, and environment-specific overrides.
- Automate full environment provisioning by combining Helm with infrastructure-as-code and release orchestration practices.
- Troubleshoot failed installs/upgrades, improve rollback strategies, and stabilize release management for production clusters.
- Enable your teams with hands-on training, chart authoring standards, and documentation to keep delivery self-sufficient.
