Helm Advanced Training
Run Helm at scale with signed charts, policy checks, GitOps delivery and well-governed chart libraries. Learn Helm through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Helm levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Helm Advanced Training.
Understand where Helm fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Helm is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Helm program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Helm training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Helm training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Helm usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Helm Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Helm training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Deploy apps with Helm
Install, configure, upgrade and roll back Kubernetes applications using Helm charts.
Author reusable charts
Write, test and publish well-structured charts with templating, dependencies and hooks.
Run Helm in production
Secure, govern and deliver charts at scale through CI/CD and GitOps.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Helm responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Helm matters
- Helm helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Helm becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Helm effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Helm concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Helm in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Helm for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Helm usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Helm.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: Helm concepts, installation and first releaseDay 1
- Introduction to Helm and Kubernetes: the basics of Helm and how it fits into the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Helm concepts: charts, releases, revisions, repositories and values
- Helm architecture: client-only design since Helm 3 (no Tiller) and release records stored as Secrets
- Installing Helm: setting up Helm on your local machine with the install script, package managers or binaries
- Connecting to a cluster: kubeconfig contexts, namespaces, helm version and helm env
- Finding charts: Artifact Hub, helm search hub and helm search repo
- Repositories: helm repo add, helm repo update and helm repo list
- First release: helm install with a public chart, helm list and helm status
- Inspecting charts: helm show chart, helm show values and helm show readme
- Overriding values: --set and -f values.yaml at install time
- Removing releases: helm uninstall and --keep-history
Essential Level = Foundation + chart authoring, templating and release lifecycleDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Creating a Helm chart: building a basic chart from scratch with helm create, Chart.yaml metadata and values
- Chart structure: Chart.yaml, values.yaml, the manifests directory, charts/, _helpers.tpl and NOTES.txt
- Helm CLI: exploring common commands such as install, upgrade, rollback, history and delete (uninstall)
- Templating with Helm: Go templating to generate Kubernetes manifests from .Values, .Release and .Chart
- Functions and pipelines: default, quote, toYaml, nindent, include and required
- Flow control: if and else, with, range and variables
- Named partials: define and include in _helpers.tpl for consistent names and labels
- Customising chart values: value precedence, --set overrides and values.schema.json validation
- Rendering locally: offline chart rendering, helm install --dry-run --debug and helm get manifest
- Upgrades and rollbacks: helm upgrade --install, --atomic, --wait and helm rollback
- Linting: helm lint for chart errors and conventions
- Packaging: helm package, chart version (SemVer) and appVersion
Intermediate Level = Essential + repositories, dependencies, hooks and testingDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Advanced chart configuration: configuring ConfigMaps, Secrets and more from values, with checksum annotations
- Chart dependencies: understanding and managing dependencies in Chart.yaml with helm dependency update and build
- Subcharts and global values: passing values to subcharts, conditions and tags
- Library charts: sharing common chart code across many charts
- Chart repositories: setting up a chart repository and publishing charts to it with index.yaml or ChartMuseum
- OCI registries: helm registry login, helm push and helm pull with oci:// references
- Helm hooks: pre- and post-install hooks, pre-upgrade and pre-delete hooks, custom hooks, weights and deletion policies
- Helm testing: helm test with test hooks and linting (Tiller-based testing was removed in Helm 3)
- Chart testing in CI: ct lint and ct install from chart-testing on kind clusters
- Helm in CI/CD: helm upgrade --install from GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins
- Troubleshooting releases: failed and pending-upgrade states, helm get values and debugging rendering errors
- Secrets handling: keeping secrets out of values files with helm-secrets or External Secrets
Advanced Level = Intermediate + best practices, supply chain security and GitOpsDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Helm best practices: creating and managing charts with versioning, testing, labels, naming and security
- Case studies and examples: structuring charts for microservice platforms and umbrella charts
- Chart provenance: helm package --sign and --verify, and Cosign signatures for OCI charts
- Supply chain security: scanning charts with Checkov or Trivy and pinning images by digest
- Policy enforcement: checking rendered manifests with Conftest (OPA), the Kyverno CLI and kubeconform
- GitOps with Helm: Argo CD Applications and Flux HelmRelease resources
- Managing many releases: Helmfile for multi-environment, multi-chart deployments
- Post-rendering: --post-renderer with Kustomize for last-mile patches
- Helm plugins: helm-diff, helm-secrets and writing your own plugin
- Helm 4: changes from Helm 3 such as server-side apply and the new plugin system, and upgrade planning
- Migrating to Helm: converting raw manifests or Kustomize setups into charts
- Large-scale operations: --history-max, release storage drivers and performance
- Capstone: build a production chart library with dependencies, signed OCI publishing and GitOps delivery
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Helm levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Install and manage a release
Install Helm, add a public repository, deploy a database chart with custom values and upgrade, inspect and uninstall the release.
Author a chart for a web application
Write a chart for a web app with a Deployment, Service and Ingress driven by values, then upgrade it and roll back a broken release.
Publish and test charts in CI
Add a database dependency and a migration hook to your chart, test it with chart-testing on kind and push it to an OCI registry from CI.
Ship a signed chart through GitOps
Sign and publish a chart to an OCI registry, enforce policy checks in CI and deliver it to staging and production with Argo CD or Flux.
Helm is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Helm with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Helm certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Helm level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Helm Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Helm path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Helm Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Helm level fits your team.
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