Helm

The Kubernetes Package Manager

Helm was accepted to CNCF on June 1, 2018 at the Incubating maturity level and then moved to the Graduated maturity level on May 1, 2020.

Project Insights

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Health Score

Fair (60)

Total contributors

6,748

+2% vs. previous year

Total contributing organizations

1,615

+12% vs. previous year

GitHub Stars

3,141

-6% vs. previous year

GitHub Forks

1,061

+32% vs. previous year

Software Value

$24.7M

First commit

October 19, 2015

Helm case studies

Subaru

Subaru


60× faster container image pulls

July 28, 2026

Subaru Accelerates AI Development for Next-Generation EyeSight with Kubernetes and CNCF Projects

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HDFC

HDFC


99.999% platform availability across multi-cloud deployments

July 22, 2026

HDFC Bank’s Enterprise Payment Hub: Building a Cloud-Native, Multi-Cloud Payment Platform

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