Ever been to Kate’s Place? Most likely, you have. You just know it by a different name: Helm.
Helm, an open source package manager for Kubernetes that began as a company hackathon project called Kate’s Place, turned 10 in 2025. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, Helm 4 was launched — the first new version in six years.
Why so long between versions? We’ll get to that. But first, Matt Butcher, founder and CEO of Fermyon Technologies, a WebAssembly company acquired this…

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