---
title: "Add the Bitnami Repository"
date: 2018-08-07T08:30:11-07:00
weight: 300
---

In the last slide, we saw that nginx offers many different products via the
default Helm Chart repository, but the nginx standalone web server is not one of
them.

After a quick web search, we discover that there is a Chart for the nginx
standalone web server available via the [Bitnami Chart
repository](https://github.com/bitnami/charts).

To add the Bitnami Chart repo to our local list of searchable charts:

```sh
helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
```

Once that completes, we can search all Bitnami Charts:

```sh
helm search repo bitnami
```

Which results in:

{{< output >}}
NAME                     CHART VERSION   APP VERSION             DESCRIPTION
bitnami/bitnami-common   0.0.9           0.0.9           DEPRECATED Chart with custom templates used in ...
bitnami/airflow          10.2.5          2.1.2           Apache Airflow is a platform to programmaticall...
bitnami/apache           8.5.8           2.4.48          Chart for Apache HTTP Server                      
...
{{< /output >}}

Search once again for nginx

```sh
helm search repo nginx
```

Now we are seeing more nginx options, across both repositories:

{{< output >}}
NAME                                    CHART VERSION   APP VERSION     DESCRIPTION
bitnami/nginx                           9.3.7           1.21.1          Chart for the nginx server                        
bitnami/nginx-ingress-controller        7.6.16          0.48.1          Chart for the nginx Ingress controller            
stable/nginx-ingress                    1.41.3          v0.34.1         DEPRECATED! An nginx Ingress controller that us...
{{< /output >}}

Or even search the Bitnami repo, just for nginx:

```sh
helm search repo bitnami/nginx
```

Which narrows it down to nginx on Bitnami:

{{< output >}}
NAME                                    CHART VERSION   APP VERSION     DESCRIPTION
bitnami/nginx                           9.3.7           1.21.1          Chart for the nginx server            
bitnami/nginx-ingress-controller        7.6.16          0.48.1          Chart for the nginx Ingress controller
{{< /output >}}

In both of those last two searches, we see

{{< output >}}
bitnami/nginx
{{< /output >}}

as a search result.  That's the one we're looking for, so let's use Helm to install it to the EKS cluster.