images/helm-chart-collator

Helm Chart Collator

The Helm Chart Collator is used to create a Helm Chart Repository served from a Docker image via Chartmuseum. It allows a developer to request charts to be pulled from various locations and packaged into the resulting Docker image, which can then be used as a portable Helm Repository.

Setup

Charts can be sourced from various locations. Each entry must be recorded in a user-defined file before building the image. When the list of charts has been created, the build-image.sh script can be used to create the image via the command:

./build-image.sh $CHARTSFILE

Charts from Helm Repos

To pull a chart a from pre-existing Helm Repos by listing them under the helm_repos heading. Each listing must include the following:

• repo: The name of the Helm Repo to add (e.g. stable)
• url: The URL where the Helm Repo is hosted (e.g. https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com)
• name: The name of the desired chart (e.g. mariadb)
• version: The version of the desired chart (e.g. 7.3.14)

Charts from Git Repos

A Chart can be pulled and packaged from a git repo by listing it under the git_repos heading. Listings must include:

• name: The name of the repository (e.g. openstack-helm). Note that this is simply used for caching during the cloning process.
• path: The path to the desired chart within the repo (e.g. keystone)
• url: The URL where the git repo is hosted (e.g. https://github.com/openstack/openstack-helm)
• sha: The SHA-1 of the commit from which the chart should be pulled (e.g. 30c9f003d227b799c636458dea161e24d5823c33). (default: HEAD).
• refspec: The refspec associated with the sha. This is only required if the sha can't be reached from the default (e.g. refs/heads/master)
• chart_version: The version to package the chart with (e.g. 1.2.3)

If a chart in a git repo specifies dependencies which are not accessible, the dependencies must also be listed under the dependencies heading. Dependencies have the same fields as git repos.

Charts from Tarballs

A chart can be downloaded by listing it under the tarred_charts header. They require the following:

• url: The URL from which the chart can be downloaded

Example

The following shows an example file for including various helm charts:

• rook-ceph as a tarball from a git repo
• mariadb from the helm stable repo
• rook-ceph from the rook repo
• prometheus from the helm/charts git repo
• keystone from the openstack-helm git repo
  • The helm-toolkit is also pulled, since it is a dependency of keystone

tarred_charts:
  - url: https://github.com/project-azorian/rook-ceph-aio/raw/master/rook-ceph-aio/charts/rook-ceph-0.0.1.tgz
helm_repos:
  - repo: stable
    url: https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com
    name: mariadb
    version: 7.3.14
  - repo: rook-release
    url: https://charts.rook.io/release
    name: rook-ceph
    version: v1.3.6
git_repos:
  - name: helm-stable
    path: stable/prometheus
    url: https://github.com/helm/charts
    sha: 79066e1f0f5ce735aeb4783f2adf4b85992d15de
    # Note: refspec is only needed when if the given sha is not already available
    refspec: refs/heads/master
  - name: openstack-helm
    path: keystone
    url: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-helm
    sha: 30c9f003d227b799c636458dea161e24d5823c33
    chart_version: 1.2.3
    dependencies:
      - name: openstack-helm-infra
        path: helm-toolkit
        url: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-helm-infra
        sha: b1e66fd308b6bc9df090aebb5b3807a0df2d87dd

Once this file has been created, the image can be built with the following:

./build-image.sh charts.yaml