helm-resolve-deps

A Helm plugin to properly resolve local chain dependencies in charts

If you have charts that have 'local' dependencies (charts that have repository starts with file://) and those dependencies also may have other local/external chain dependencies than you probably want to resolve all of those chain dependencies automatically and in a proper way.

Inspired by helm/helm#2247

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This plugin:

• Does it for you.
• Requires Helm3
• Can be used as replacement for default helm dep up command.

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Why should you use it as replacement for helm dep up?

Because it has the -u|--untar flag which allows you to automatically unpack all dependent charts and see what manifests are inside them.

Moreover in this case you are able to edit dependent charts right inside charts/ directory.

It can be helpful for debugging purposes.

Also the plugin has -c|--clean flag which allows you to remove charts, tmpcharts directories and Chart.lock file automatically.

And of course because the plugin does proper resolution of local chain dependencies.

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Installation

helm plugin install --version "main" https://github.com/Noksa/helm-resolve-deps.git

To install old (bash-style) version, use the following command:

helm plugin install --version "v1.0.0" https://github.com/Noksa/helm-resolve-deps.git

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Upgrade

The best way to do it - reinstall it

If you encounter a problem during installation, try to remove helm plugins cache first

(h plugin uninstall resolve-deps || true) && h plugin install --version "main" https://github.com/Noksa/helm-resolve-deps.git

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Usage

Run this command to receive all available options:

helm resolve-deps -h

You can pass all flags from helm dependency update command to the plugin's command.

They all will be substituted to helm dependency update.

To do that, use -- as end for flags parsing and pass arguments after it:

helm resolve-deps path_to_chart -- --kubeconfig myconfig

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Custom flags

This plugin has its own flags. You can pass them in addition to helm dep up flags or without them.

-u[--untar]                   - untar/unpack dependent charts. They will be present as directories instead of .tgz archieves. Useful for debugging purposes
-c[--clean]                   - remove charts, tmpcharts directories and Chart.lock file in each chart before running the dependency update command
--skip-refresh-in name1,name2 - skip fetching updates from helm repositories before running 'helm dep up' in specific charts (pass their names in the argument)
--skip-refresh                - skip fetching updated from helm repositories

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A few examples:

helm resolve-deps . --skip-refresh
# another way to pass --skip-refresh as 'helm dep up' flag directly:
helm resolve-deps . -- --skip-refresh
helm resolve-deps --clean
helm resolve-deps ~/charts/my-chart --skip-refresh --untar
helm resolve-deps ~/charts/my-chart --skip-refresh -u -c
helm resolve-deps --skip-refresh-in my-chart1,my-second-chart