Helm Chart Starter

This repository contains starter templates for Helm. Check out the documentation to learn what starter templates are.

Usage with helm-starter

helm starter fetch https://github.com/christianknell/helm-starter.git

To use a starter, run:

helm create <CHART_NAME> --starter helm-starter/<STARTER_NAME>

For example to use the default starter template, run:

helm create <CHART_NAME> --starter helm-starter/default

Needed changes after creation

After running the above command you still have to apply some changes to the created files.

1. Chart.yaml:
   1. change appVersion
   2. change description
   3. change version
   4. add home
   5. add icon
   6. add maintainers
   7. add sources
2. values.yaml:
   1. change image.registry
   2. change image.repository
   3. change image.tag
3. README.md.gotmpl:
   1. replace the helm registry host christianknell https://christianknell.github.io/helm-charts
   2. replace <CHARTNAME> with the real name of the chart
   3. add an <INTRODUCTION>
   4. replace <APPLICATION_NAME> and <APPLICATION_LINK> with the real values

That's basically all you have to do to have a clean starting point. The provided values.yaml comes already with annotations for usage with helm-docs. See these instructions on how to create a README.md in an automatic fashion.

Update with helm-starter

helm starter update helm-starter