HELM-EDI

Helm (EDI) is the Helm Kubernetes package manager — manages cloud-native EDI gateway deployments as versioned packages (Charts) atomically installable and upgradable.

Definition

A Helm Chart is a structured directory: Chart.yaml (metadata), values.yaml (default config), templates/ (Go-templated Kubernetes manifests). Helm installs, upgrades and rolls back a Chart under a named Release. Helm 3 (2019) removed the Tiller server, became a pure client.

Origin

Created in 2015 by Deis (rebranded as Helm). CNCF graduated project in 2020. Helm 3 published on 13 November 2019.

Use

An EDI team publishes an internal 'edi-gateway' Chart with values.yaml exposing replicaCount, image.tag, partner.list, observability.endpoint. Staging deploy: helm upgrade --install edi-staging edi-gateway --values values-staging.yaml. Incident rollback: helm rollback edi-staging 3.

Related terms

• Kubernetes — target.
• Terraform — IaC complement.
• Gradual rollout — related practice.
• CDK — typed alternative.