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Do you need Helm installed to use Helmcharts via Pulumi?

As far as I can remember me using it once, yes, because Pulumi uses it via `helm template` to “instantiate” the chart to YAML and convert that to Pulumi resources.

found a thread from feb where <@UCWG26BH7> mentions it is no longer needed <https://pulumi-community.slack.com/archives/C84L4E3N1/p1614122626153900>

I don’t use it anymore. Everything is written in Pulumi code for us.

I convert via `helm template`, followed by <https://www.pulumi.com/kube2pulumi/> to have a baseline of Pulumi code from which I refactor.

we use a lot of community helm charts which i do not want to maintain myself after conversion.

You are not required to have helm installed. The pulumi kubernetes provider uses the helm sdk/lib under the hood to template out the chart.

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes/blob/master/provider/pkg/provider/invoke_helm_template.go>