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## Installing Helm
[Helm](https://github.com/kubernetes/helm) is a tool to simplify the
deployment and management of applications on Kubernetes clusters. We
will use Helm to deploy OpenWhisk on Kubernetes.
Before you can use Helm, you need to do a small amount of one-time
setup on your Kubernetes cluster.
1. Make sure that you have a running Kubernetes cluster and a
`kubectl` client connected to this cluster as described in the
[Requirements section](../README.md#requirements) of the main
README.md.
2. Follow the Helm [install instructions](https://github.com/kubernetes/helm)
for your platform.
3. Run the following command to init `Helm Tiller`:
```shell
helm init
```
4. To see if Helm is ready, use the command below and make sure the
`tiller-deploy` pod is in the `Running` state.
```shell
kubectl get pods -n kube-system
```
5. Grant the necessary privileges to the `Helm` user:
```shell
kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller-cluster-admin --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:default
```