Helm Dev Environment

Set up, run, and tear down the local Kubernetes development environment for OpenShell. The stack is: k3d (Docker-backed k3s) for the cluster, Skaffold for image builds and Helm deploys, and the OpenShell Helm chart (deploy/helm/openshell/).

Prerequisites

• Docker Desktop (macOS) or Docker Engine (Linux) running
• mise install completed (provides k3d, kubectl, skaffold, helm)

Startup

1. Create the cluster