#helmfile - October 2020

v0.130.1
Fix: forceNamespace needs shouldRun is true (#1510)

v0.130.1
954673d (HEAD, tag: v0.130.1, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Fix: forceNamespace needs shouldRun is true (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="712637508" data-permission-text="Title is...

anyone using helm provider in terraform: http://man.hubwiz.com/docset/Terraform.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents/docs/providers/helm/release.html

I'm trying to understand why you would choose values over set or vice versa

Helmfile in one of the more recent values got these super nice debug messages helm:pfRFE> wait.go:225: [debug] Deployment is not ready: staging-lavender-five/ingress-staging-lavender-five-ingress-controller. 0 out of 2 expected pods are ready but they are just thrown into the stdout or stderr (not sure). Is there a way these can be outputted in a computer parseable format? I would like to display them (cleaned up a bit) in an applications logging screen.

anybody here uses helmfile with Flux, i mean generate HelmRelease file for Flux deployment by helmfile template

v0.130.2: Fix concurrent-map-iteration-and-write errors while running release h…
…ooks (#1534)
Fixes <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="706251141" data-permission-text="Title is private"...

v0.130.2: Fix concurrent-map-iteration-and-write errors while running release h…
ab9fb2c (HEAD, tag: v0.130.2, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Fix concurrent-map-iteration-and-write errors while running release hooks (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="719761479"...

v0.130.3: Bump vals (#1537)
To incorporate unexpected SSM secret exposure issue when the parameter version is specified.
See variantdev/vals#37

v0.130.3: Bump vals (#1537)
563fce4 (HEAD, tag: v0.130.3, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Bump vals (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="721048331" data-permission-text="Title is private"...

Bumping this PR because it would be really useful for our use case: https://github.com/roboll/helmfile/pull/1503

I would like to pass values and secrets as argument to the helmfile. The flag --state-values-file  works only for values not secrets . I couldn't find the equivalent cli argument for the secret.
How would I pass secrets files?

v0.131.0: Bump chartify to 0.4.4 (#1540)
To incorporate the fix for unconventional chart templates like seen in the Datadog chart variantdev/chartify@5443ca1

v0.131.0: Bump chartify to 0.4.4 (#1540)
080080f (HEAD, tag: v0.131.0, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Bump chartify to 0.4.4 (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="721884071" data-permission-text="Title is private"...

v0.132.0: Minor README improvement (#1543)
9ec4a85 (HEAD, tag: v0.132.0, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Minor README improvement (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="723045991" data-permission-text="Title is private"...

Checkout what @mumoshu whipped up! https://github.com/mumoshu/waypoint-plugin-helmfile

hi, new helmfile user here. can i install manifests outside of charts using helmfile? for example, i want to apply some CRDs before installing a chart

attempting to apply a simple helmfile with:

repositories:

  - name: itscontained
    url: <https://charts.itscontained.io>

helmDefaults:
  verify: false
  force: true

releases:

  - name: secret-manager
    labels:
      group: vault
    namespace: infra
    chart: itscontained/secret-manager
    version: 0.3.0
    atomic: true
    kubeContext: "{{ .Environment.Name }}"

this results in

Error: Failed to render chart: exit status 1: Error: failed to download "itscontained/secret-manager" (hint: running `helm repo update` may help)

maybe this is masking another problem? because the chart repo and chart are correct (i installed it via plain helm already)

Hello helm users.
have some questions on helm for Prometheus.
1 ) what is the difference between Prometheus-operator and kube-prometheus (what will be installed as part of Prometheus-operator and kube-prometheus )
2 ) I want to install prometheus-operator with version 0.29.0. in Chart.yaml undersources its pointing to https://github.com/coreos/prometheus-operator. but there is no value.yaml file. am i checking the right repo?
3) if i want to install prometheus-operator using local helm repo using custom value.yaml, which repo i should download.

Thank you

Does anyone know how to iterate over files in a certain folder with helmfile?

  {{- $root := . -}}
  {{- range $path, $bytes := .Files.Glob .Values.filePattern }}
  {{ base $path }}: |
    {{ $root.Files.Get $path | b64enc }}
  {{- end }}

helm style seems not to work

in ./helmfile.yaml: failed to render values files "config/0-default/values.yaml.gotmpl": failed to render [config/0-default/values.yaml.gotmpl], because of template: stringTemplate:17:29: executing "stringTemplate" at <$.Files.Glob>: can't evaluate field Files in type state.releaseTemplateData

is the error I get

@Mark Henneman I don't think that's possible, what are you trying to achieve?

@vixus0 I have unknown number of files in a folder, which I want to read into a secret, where each filename is the key and the contents is a base64 string (secret volume).

I'm really struggling with this for some reason... Here's my problem:
• I am managing multiple k8s clusters, let's call them "environments".
• Each environment has some global config (AWS account ID, domain name, etc.) that gets used in release values.
• I have a common set of releases that should be applied to all clusters.
• I want to allow the possibility for each cluster to specify its own additional set of releases.
• Each release has values shared across all the clusters and also environment-specific values.
What's the best way to achieve this with helmfile?

v0.132.1: Disable dependency update while running helm-x/chartify in more cases…
… (#1548)
helm dep up is now skipped while running helm-x/chartify when the chart/directory is obtained by running go-getter, or skipDeps is configured...

v0.132.1: Disable dependency update while running helm-x/chartify in more cases…
0663831 (HEAD, tag: v0.132.1, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Disable dependency update while running helm-x/chartify in more cases (<a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="724182522"...

Kustomize question. I was using the helmify.sh script, but one question, how do I inject namespace? I tried to use this method with an operator that uses ClusterRoleBinding . I ran into this:

<http://ClusterRoleBinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io|ClusterRoleBinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io> "run-nfs-provisioner" is invalid: subjects[0].namespace: Required value

Where:

kind: ClusterRoleBinding
apiVersion: <http://rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1|rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1>
metadata:
  name: rook-nfs-operator
roleRef:
  apiGroup: <http://rbac.authorization.k8s.io|rbac.authorization.k8s.io>
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: rook-nfs-operator
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: rook-nfs-operator
  namespace: <MY-NAME-SPACE-NEEDS-TO-MATCH>

I am not sure on the strategy to handle this scenario...

It seems I have to use a static namespace

Is there a way to have helmfile apply gotemplating on some of kustomize files before I helmify.sh it? Kustomize is so anti-DRY anti-cloud-native IMO, but I have to use it for many use cases where operators are used and there's no helm chart to use the operator.

Hi Helm-Users,

When i do
       helm fetch --untar stable/velero
this will fetch the helm latest stable helm chart, what command do i  have use to download the specific version of helm chart????

Thank You

Just add --version

      --version string             specify the exact chart version to use. If this is not specified, the latest version is used

Type helm fetch --help to see possible options

Hi!
When using helmfile_release terraform resource, how do you handle helm repositories?

Hello Helm Users
in general if i fetch a helm chart repo using helm fetch then, i write a custom value file i.e my-value.yaml and if do,

helm install ./velero -f ./velero/my-value.yaml --name velero --namespace velero

will it refer the default value.yaml which alreday is present or it will ignore the value.yaml ?

Thank you