website/content/en/docs/tasks/service-catalog/install-service-catalog-using-helm.md

title	reviewers	content_type
Install Service Catalog using Helm	chenopis	task

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Use Helm to install Service Catalog on your Kubernetes cluster. Up to date information on this process can be found at the kubernetes-sigs/service-catalog repo.

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• Understand the key concepts of Service Catalog.
• Service Catalog requires a Kubernetes cluster running version 1.7 or higher.
• You must have a Kubernetes cluster with cluster DNS enabled.
  • If you are using a cloud-based Kubernetes cluster or {{< glossary_tooltip text="Minikube" term_id="minikube" >}}, you may already have cluster DNS enabled.
  • If you are using hack/local-up-cluster.sh, ensure that the KUBE_ENABLE_CLUSTER_DNS environment variable is set, then run the install script.
• Install and setup kubectl v1.7 or higher. Make sure it is configured to connect to the Kubernetes cluster.
• Install Helm v2.7.0 or newer.
  • Follow the Helm install instructions.
  • If you already have an appropriate version of Helm installed, execute helm init to install Tiller, the server-side component of Helm.

Add the service-catalog Helm repository

Once Helm is installed, add the service-catalog Helm repository to your local machine by executing the following command:

helm repo add svc-cat https://svc-catalog-charts.storage.googleapis.com

Check to make sure that it installed successfully by executing the following command:

helm search service-catalog

If the installation was successful, the command should output the following:

NAME                	CHART VERSION	APP VERSION	DESCRIPTION                                                 
svc-cat/catalog     	0.2.1        	           	service-catalog API server and controller-manager helm chart
svc-cat/catalog-v0.2	0.2.2        	           	service-catalog API server and controller-manager helm chart

Enable RBAC

Your Kubernetes cluster must have RBAC enabled, which requires your Tiller Pod(s) to have cluster-admin access.

When using Minikube v0.25 or older, you must run Minikube with RBAC explicitly enabled:

minikube start --extra-config=apiserver.Authorization.Mode=RBAC

When using Minikube v0.26+, run:

minikube start

With Minikube v0.26+, do not specify --extra-config. The flag has since been changed to --extra-config=apiserver.authorization-mode and Minikube now uses RBAC by default. Specifying the older flag may cause the start command to hang.

If you are using hack/local-up-cluster.sh, set the AUTHORIZATION_MODE environment variable with the following values:

AUTHORIZATION_MODE=Node,RBAC hack/local-up-cluster.sh -O

By default, helm init installs the Tiller Pod into the kube-system namespace, with Tiller configured to use the default service account.

{{< note >}} If you used the --tiller-namespace or --service-account flags when running helm init, the --serviceaccount flag in the following command needs to be adjusted to reference the appropriate namespace and ServiceAccount name. {{< /note >}}

Configure Tiller to have cluster-admin access:

kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller-cluster-admin \
    --clusterrole=cluster-admin \
    --serviceaccount=kube-system:default

Install Service Catalog in your Kubernetes cluster

Install Service Catalog from the root of the Helm repository using the following command:

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helm install catalog svc-cat/catalog --namespace catalog

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helm install svc-cat/catalog --name catalog --namespace catalog

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{{% heading "whatsnext" %}}

• View sample service brokers.
• Explore the kubernetes-sigs/service-catalog project.