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Cloud-Native Microservices With Kubernetes - 2nd Edition

A Comprehensive Guide to Building, Scaling, Deploying, Observing, and Managing Highly-Available Microservices in Kubernetes

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Helm Environment Variables

Helm uses some environment variables to configure its behavior and settings. Using the following command, you can see the list of what's currently set in your environment:

helm env

You should see an output similar to this:

# Binary name
HELM_BIN="helm"

# The path to Helm configuration files
HELM_CONFIG_HOME="/root/.config/helm"
# Registry-related environment variables
HELM_REGISTRY_CONFIG="/root/.config/helm/registry/config.json"
# Repository-related environment variables
HELM_REPOSITORY_CONFIG="/root/.config/helm/repositories.yaml"
# Cache-related environment variables
HELM_CACHE_HOME="/root/.cache/helm"
# Repository cache path
HELM_REPOSITORY_CACHE="/root/.cache/helm/repository"
# Data-related environment variables
HELM_DATA_HOME="/root/.local/share/helm"
# Plugins path
HELM_PLUGINS="/root/.local/share/helm/plugins"

# Debugging and output
HELM_DEBUG="false"

# Kubernetes API server URL

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