Rancher April 2021 Online Meetup - Hypper: Package Management for Cluster Admins

Introducing Hypper, a new package manager for Kubernetes designed with cluster administrators in mind. Hypper is built on Helm and charts but makes some different assumptions around multi-tenancy and dependent charts (which can be useful with CRD handling). Where Helm assumes a user could be one of many users running in multi-tenant Hypper assumes the user is a cluster administrator managing a cluster.

The name Hypper is a combination of Helm and Zypper (the package manager used by SUSE Linux distributions). It’s pronounced like “hip - er”.

Planned Agenda:

• What is Hypper and how is it different from Helm
• Annotating for extra features
• Demonstrating installing a simple chart
• Demonstrating installing with shared system dependencies
• The road ahead

Let's check out the opportunities that Hypper brings!