helm-charts

This utility helps to build and publish Helm charts
to a raw Nexus repository.

It addresses issues with hosting
helm charts on Nexus which currently doesn't support Helm repos.

Usage

Prerequisites: NodeJS, helm.

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``bash


Install the utility

npm i -g helm-charts

Builds all charts from the ./charts directory, places them in the ./charts-output directory and generates a repo index.

helm-charts build --source ./charts

Publishes all charts from the ./charts-output directory to a raw Nexus repo available at https://some.nexus.example.com/repository/helm-raw/charts

helm-charts publish --repository https://some.nexus.example.com/repository/helm-raw/charts --username --password
`

The chart publishing mechanism puts its best efforts to resolve possible charts versioning conflicts.
When the chart that's about to be added already exists in the remote repo:
- it is skipped - when they both have the same content (sha256 checksum matches).
- an error is raised - when their content is different.

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1. Install the utility in your project.

`bash
# Install the utility
npm i --save-dev helm-charts
`

2. Put the following in your package.json:

`json
{
"scripts": {
"helm-charts:build": "helm-charts build",
"helm-charts:publish": "helm-charts publish --repository https://some.nexus.example.com/repository/helm-raw/charts"
}
}
`

3. Run it as follows:

`bash
npm run helm-charts:build
npm run helm-charts:publish -- --username --password
``