How to list installed applications on a kubernetes cluster using helm

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2 min read | by Jordi Prats

Helm intends to be a package manager for kubernetes, as such it provides a way to list all the installed applicacions on the cluster

To list all the applicacions installed we can use helm list or helm ls (whatever it's easiert to remember). By default it will only show applications on the current namespace, so if we want to see all the applicacions across all the namespace we need to add the -A flag:

$ helm list -A
NAME                          NAMESPACE     REVISION  UPDATED                                   STATUS    CHART                               APP VERSION
pet2cattle                      pet2cattle-eks  1         2021-06-12 21:36:19.019273068 +0200 CEST  deployed  pet2cattle-1.20.0                   1.1.2    
autoscaler                    autoscaler    1         2021-06-10 23:39:07.545005782 +0200 CEST  deployed  cluster-autoscaler-9.9.2            1.20.0     
aws-load-balancer-controller  kube-system   1         2021-06-11 19:22:50.127210471 +0200 CEST  deployed  aws-load-balancer-controller-1.2.2  v2.2.0     
metrics-server                default       1         2021-06-10 23:39:01.575380784 +0200 CEST  deployed  metrics-server-2.11.4               0.3.6      
target-group-binding          default       1         2021-03-20 20:47:00.523861226 +0100 CET   deployed  target-group-binding-crds-0.1.0     0.0.47

helm ls provides the same exact output:

$ helm ls -A
NAME                          NAMESPACE     REVISION  UPDATED                                   STATUS    CHART                               APP VERSION
pet2cattle                      pet2cattle-eks  1         2021-06-12 21:36:19.019273068 +0200 CEST  deployed  pet2cattle-1.20.0                   1.1.2    
autoscaler                    autoscaler    1         2021-06-10 23:39:07.545005782 +0200 CEST  deployed  cluster-autoscaler-9.9.2            1.20.0     
aws-load-balancer-controller  kube-system   1         2021-06-11 19:22:50.127210471 +0200 CEST  deployed  aws-load-balancer-controller-1.2.2  v2.2.0     
metrics-server                default       1         2021-06-10 23:39:01.575380784 +0200 CEST  deployed  metrics-server-2.11.4               0.3.6      
target-group-binding          default       1         2021-03-20 20:47:00.523861226 +0100 CET   deployed  target-group-binding-crds-0.1.0     0.0.47

Likewise as we would do with kubectl, if we want to check only a specific namespace we can use the -n flag as follows:

$ helm ls -n autoscaler
NAME        NAMESPACE   REVISION  UPDATED                                   STATUS    CHART                     APP VERSION
autoscaler  autoscaler  1         2021-06-10 23:39:07.545005782 +0200 CEST  deployed  cluster-autoscaler-9.9.2  1.20.0

Posted on 17/06/2021

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