Commit 48e80e7b authored by Matt Butcher's avatar Matt Butcher

Merge pull request #622 from kubernetes/fix/readme-features

fix(README): add features list
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Helm is a tool for managing Kubernetes charts. Charts are packages of
pre-configured Kubernetes resources.
Features:
- Helm now has both a client (`helm`) and a server (`tiller`). The
server runs inside of Kubernetes, and manages your resources.
- Helm's chart format has changed for the better:
- Dependencies are immutable and stored inside of a chart's `charts/`
directory.
- Charts are strongly versioned using SemVer 2
- Charts can be loaded from directories or from chart archive files
- Helm supports Go templates without requiring you to run `generate`
or `template` commands.
- Helm makes it easy to configure your releases -- and share the
configuration with the rest of your team.
- Helm chart repositories now use plain HTTP instead of Git/GitHub.
There is no longer any GitHub dependency.
- A chart server is a simple HTTP server
- Charts are referenced by version
- The `helm serve` command will run a local chart server, though you
can easily use object storage (S3, GCS) or a regular web server.
- And you can still load charts from a local directory.
- The Helm workspace is gone. You can now work anywhere on your
filesystem that you want to work.
## Install
Helm is in its early stages of development. At this time there are no
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