Chapter 2: Preparing a Kubernetes and Helm Environment

Here are some answers to the questions presented in this chapter:

1. Windows and Mac users can install Helm using the Chocolatey or Homebrew package managers, respectively. All users (Windows, Mac, and Linux) can also install Helm from its GitHub releases page at https://github.com/helm/helm/releases.
2. Helm authenticates using the local kubeconfig file.
3. Kubernetes roles provide authorization. An administrator can manage these privileges by creating a RoleBinding, which binds a role to a user or group.
4. The helm repo add command is used to locally configure a Helm chart repository. It is a requirement to install the charts contained within that repository.
5. The three XDG environment variables used by Helm are XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and XDG_DATA_HOME. XDG_CACHE_HOME is used to assign the location for cached files (which includes downloaded charts from upstream chart repositories). XDG_CONFIG_HOME is used...