Helm Client Local State

Internal

• Helm

Overview

Helm 3 changed the location of its local state (Helm 2 used ~/.helm). Helm stores configuration based on the XDG base directory specification, as such:

• cached files are stored in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/helm
• configuration is stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/helm
• data is stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME/helm

The location of the configuration, cache and data home depend on the operating system:

Operating System	Configuration Path	Cache Path	Data Path
macOS	$HOME/Library/Preferences/helm	$HOME/Library/Caches/helm	$HOME/Library/helm
Linux	$HOME/.config/helm	$HOME/.cache/helm	$HOME/.local/share/helm