helm

Creating Your Own Charts

TheChart Development Guide explains how to develop your own charts. But you can get started quickly by using the helm create command:

helm create f-backend-chart
cd f-backend-chart

Now there is a chart in ./f-backend-chart. You can edit it and create your own templates.

Linting

As you edit your chart, you can validate that it is well-formed by running:

helm lint

Package

When it's time to package the chart up for distribution, you can run:

helm package . -d output-folder

Install

There are two way to install that chart.

1. With *.tgz file:

helm install f-backend-app ./output-folder/f-backend-chart-0.1.0.tgz

1. Without tgz file, in development:

helm install f-backend-app .

Upgrade

If you change that chart, you can upgrade your helm chart with:

helm upgrade f-backend .

Uninstall

helm uninstall f-backend

Always delete resources with helm that created by helm

Upload tgz file to gitlab server with API

curl --fail \
    --request POST \
    --user "$USER:$PASSWORD" \
    --form "chart=@./f-backend-chart-0.1.0.tgz" \
    "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/$PROJECT_ID/packages/helm/api/stable/charts"