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07. – 09. September 2026
09:00 - 16:00
Online🇩🇪Deutsch
1.665,00 €
per person · plus 19% VAT
Introduction to Kubernetes Helm
Develop production-ready Helm charts in 3 days: From installation through OCI registry publishing to GitOps integration. You create custom charts, test with helm-unittest, and deploy multi-environment setups. All exercises run on dedicated Kubernetes clusters in the DevNinjas Dojo.
Workshop levelSome practical experience recommended
Satisfied participants2340+
Days3
Workshop codeDW9
Workshop Details
What makes this workshop stand out
What you will learn and take away
After three days of Helm training, you will manage Kubernetes deployments production-ready. Here is what you take home:
- Develop custom charts with Go templates, values.yaml, and subcharts
- Use OCI registries (Docker Hub, GHCR) instead of traditional Helm repos
- GitOps integration with ArgoCD for declarative deployments
- Security best practices: RBAC, secrets management with Sealed Secrets and External Secrets Operator
All exercises run in dedicated Kubernetes clusters in the DevNinjas Dojo. No local setup, no hassle. You take working code home with you.
Want to continue? Our Kubernetes Advanced training (DW3) deepens production readiness, or prepare for certification with CKA (DW6).
Why the investment pays off
Helm standardizes your Kubernetes deployments and makes them repeatable. Concrete benefits for your team:
- Faster deployments: Roll out a complete staging environment with a single command instead of maintaining every YAML file by hand
- Fewer errors: 40% of Kubernetes teams discover misconfigurations in production (Red Hat, 2024). Standardized Helm charts eliminate the most common cause: manual copy-paste between environments.
- Lower costs: Reusable charts and automated rollbacks save your team recurring manual YAML work in every deployment cycle
- ROI example: With a DevOps salary of EUR 80k/year (≈ EUR 400/day), the training pays for itself after 4 saved workdays
Investing in Helm knowledge pays off immediately through measurably faster deployments and reduced operational costs.
Prerequisites
Required:
- Kubernetes fundamentals: Understanding of Pods, Deployments, Services, Namespaces
- Experience with kubectl and YAML syntax
- Comfortable working in the terminal
Not required:
- Prior Helm experience (you learn from scratch)
- Programming skills (templates are explained step by step)
Recommended: Our Kubernetes Fundamentals Workshop (DW2) provides ideal preparation.
Workshop Agenda
Your Agenda at a Glance
Hands-on and structured. Every participant works in their own cloud environment. The agenda shows you what to expect each day.
09:00 - 09:30💬 Introduction Round
09:30 - 10:30
Why Helm?
You learn why YAML templating with Helm scales better than copy-paste or Kustomize overlays: Reusable charts for 10+ microservices, centralized dependency management, automatic rollbacks on failures.
Concrete problems Helm solves: Deploy PostgreSQL with 1 command instead of writing 300 lines of YAML. Manage Dev/Stage/Prod with values overrides instead of 3 duplicated YAML sets. Deployment history with helm rollback instead of manual backups.
10:30 - 12:00
Helm Architecture and Core Concepts
Get familiar with the core elements of the Helm CLI and understand the differences between Helm 3 and Helm 4 (WASM plugins, OCI digest support, Server-Side Apply for GitOps). Discover how charts, repositories, and releases interconnect to streamline your Kubernetes deployments.
Note: Tiller (Helm 2) was removed in Helm 3 and is only mentioned as historical context.
12:00 - 13:00🥪 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:45
Helm 4 Installation & Getting Started
You install Helm 4 and test its key features using a sample chart. You understand what changed compared to Helm 3 and which charts from Helm 3 projects continue to work without modification.
Helm 4 highlights: Server-Side Apply for GitOps, OCI-first for container registry integration, WASM plugins, improved caching strategy.
13:45 - 14:30
Finding Charts with Artifact Hub
You learn to find and evaluate charts on Artifact Hub. Using helm search hub, helm show chart, and helm show values, you analyze charts before installing them.
Practical focus: Choosing charts without vendor lock-in (e.g. Traefik Ingress, Grafana, cert-manager). We discuss why Bitnami charts became paid in 2025 and which community alternatives are better suited.
14:30 - 15:30
Basics: Using Helm Charts
Explore the structure of Helm charts: from Chart.yaml and values.yaml to templates. Learn how to customize standard values and deploy a hands-on exercise using the nginx-stable/nginx chart (official upstream chart from the NGINX project): configure a simple web server, adjust ports and replicas, and test it in your environment.
15:30 - 16:30💭 Questions & Answers
Our Benefits
All from one hand!
With our high-quality trainings and workshops, you can bring yourself and your team up to date. All this with many benefits that you get from us.
- High Practical Content
- 70% hands-on, 30% theory. You work continuously with real scenarios and take working code home with you. No PowerPoint battles, but directly applicable knowledge for your projects.
- Cloud Learning Environment
- DevNinjas Dojo: Your own Kubernetes clusters and VMs for each participant in the browser. No installation, works despite VPN/proxy/firewalls. You work with dedicated resources, not in shared environments.
- Experienced Trainers
- Full-time DevOps engineers and consultants from DevNinjas lead the workshops. Not external trainers, but specialized employees actively working on client projects and sharing real-world experience.
- Small Groups
- Maximum 8 participants per workshop. Everyone gets individual support from the trainer. Your specific questions and use cases get answered, not passed over in anonymous crowds.
- Real-World Scenarios
- No toy examples or hello-world demos. You work with production-grade setups: multi-container applications, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring stacks. Directly transferable to your production environments.
- Certification
- You receive an official certificate of attendance as PDF and a verified LinkedIn badge. Document your professional development for your employer, HR, and recruiters professionally.
Testimonials
How participants experience our trainings
4.9/ 5.0
Based on 1047+ participant reviewsacross all DevNinjas trainings
Content
4.8
Trainer
5.0
Hands-on
4.8
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Johannes Bernstein
@TRIMET Gelsenkirchen SE
"From my perspective, the workshop had the right speed and an appropriate level of challenge. The subject matter was explained clearly by the instructor and practically consolidated with well-distributed exercises. Adjusting the workshop focus to the participants wishes was not a problem. Valuable practical experiences were shared, and even more specific questions were gladly answered. The instructor's professional expertise and extensive practical experience on the subject gave this workshop a special quality."
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@forcont business technology GmbH
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@Bundeswehr
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@innovas GmbH
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@Siemens AG
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@Bundesdruckerei GmbH
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