M-x helm-mode to enable helm completion for common Emacscommands. Note that the helm functionality enabled through helm-modecomes from a generic implementation and does not include all helmfeatures available through equivalent helm-specific commands.See FAQabout M-x and C-x C-f.
NOTE: helm-mode is using Emacs completion-styles by default, you may want to configure your completion-styles for a better experience.The recommended setting is to use (setq completion-styles '(flex)) if flex is available in your Emacs (27+ only) otherwhise use the helm-flex style (emacs-26).
Another way to discover helm commands: run the shell script:./emacs-helm.sh from helm directory and then look in the scratchbuffer. emacs-helm.sh accepts emacs command lineoptions. emacs-helm.sh -h opens an Info screen with more details.
helm-mode: turns on helm completions for most standard emacscompletions. Helm provides even more optimized helm completions forsome commands in helm-mode. Prefer these natively optimized versionsover the ones in helm-mode.
helm-browse-project: handles project files and buffers; defaults to current directory; works with helm-find-files; recommended with helm-ls-git, helm-ls-hg and helm-ls-svn for a better handling of version control files. Each time a project under version control is visited it is added to helm-browse-project-history and can be visted with helm-projects-history.
Warning Helm development has sparked quite a few extensions, manyof which duplicate features already included in helm. Some of thesepackages (about 20 at last count in the MELPA repository) are eitherdeprecated or unmaintained. Moreover, many remain out-of-sync withhelm core development cycles causing incompatibilities. To avoidhelm problems or unstable emacs, please look for comparable featureswithin helm andemacs-helm before installing suchextensions e.g. helm-swoop vs helm-occur which is part of Helm.
I was switching over some services from raw manifests to helm charts.. and ended up down a path. A path of generic "webservices" (for the most part).. in a bid to keep things simple and reusable, even from a chart perspective.
At this point, you can run any Helm commands (such as helm install chart-name) to install, modify, delete, or query Helm charts in your cluster. If you're new to Helm and don't have a specific chart to install, you can:
The version field inside of the Chart.yaml is used by many of theHelm tools, including the CLI and the Tiller server. When generating apackage, the helm package command will use the version that it findsin the Chart.yaml as a token in the package name. The system assumesthat the version number in the chart package name matches the version number inthe Chart.yaml. Failure to meet this assumption will cause an error.
When managing charts in a Chart Repository, it is sometimes necessary todeprecate a chart. The optional deprecated field in Chart.yaml can be usedto mark a chart as deprecated. If the latest version of a chart in therepository is marked as deprecated, then the chart as a whole is considered tobe deprecated. The chart name can later be reused by publishing a newer versionthat is not marked as deprecated. The workflow for deprecating charts, asfollowed by the helm/chartsproject is:
The chart can also contain a short plain text templates/NOTES.txt file that will be printed outafter installation, and when viewing the status of a release. This file is evaluated as atemplate, and can be used to display usage notes, next steps, or any otherinformation relevant to a release of the chart. For example, instructions could be provided forconnecting to a database, or accessing a web UI. Since this file is printed to STDOUT when runninghelm install or helm status, it is recommended to keep the content brief and point to the READMEfor greater detail.
When helm dependency update retrieves charts, it will store them aschart archives in the charts/ directory. So for the example above, onewould expect to see the following files in the charts directory:
A chart repository is an HTTP server that houses one or more packagedcharts. While helm can be used to manage local chart directories, whenit comes to sharing charts, the preferred mechanism is a chartrepository.
Helm comes with built-in package server for developer testing (helmserve). The Helm team has tested other servers, including Google CloudStorage with website mode enabled, and S3 with website mode enabled.
On the client side, repositories are managed with the helm repocommands. However, Helm does not provide tools for uploading charts toremote repository servers. This is because doing so would addsubstantial requirements to an implementing server, and thus raise thebarrier for setting up a repository.
Hooks allow you, the chart developer, an opportunity to performoperations at strategic points in a release lifecycle. For example,consider the lifecycle for a helm install. By default, the lifecyclelooks like this:
Practically speaking, this means that if you create resources in a hook, youcannot rely upon helm delete to remove the resources. To destroy suchresources, you need to either write code to perform this operation in a pre-deleteor post-delete hook or add "helm.sh/hook-delete-policy" annotation to the hook template file.
By default Tiller will wait for 60 seconds for a deleted hook to no longer exist in the API server before timing out. Thisbehavior can be changed using the helm.sh/hook-delete-timeout annotation. The value is the number of seconds Tillershould wait for the hook to be fully deleted. A value of 0 means Tiller does not wait at all.
When a helm release, that uses a hook, is being updated, it is possible that the hook resource might already exist in the cluster. In such circumstances, by default, helm will fail trying to install the hook resource with an "... already exists" error.
A common reason why the hook resource might already exist is that it was not deleted following use on a previous install/upgrade. There are, in fact, good reasons why one might want to keep the hook: for example, to aid manual debugging in case something went wrong. In this case, the recommended way of ensuring subsequent attempts to create the hook do not fail is to define a "hook-delete-policy" that can handle this: "helm.sh/hook-delete-policy": "before-hook-creation". This hook annotation causes any existing hook to be removed, before the new hook is installed.
If it is preferred to actually delete the hook after each use (rather than have to handle it on a subsequent use, as shown above), then this can be achieved using a delete policy of "helm.sh/hook-delete-policy": "hook-succeeded,hook-failed".
The annotation "helm.sh/resource-policy": keep instructs Tiller to skip thisresource during a helm delete operation. However, this resource becomesorphaned. Helm will no longer manage it in any way. This can lead to problemsif using helm install --replace on a release that has already been deleted, buthas kept resources.
Each time you want to add a new chart to your repository, you must regeneratethe index. The helm repo index command will completely rebuild the index.yamlfile from scratch, including only the charts that it finds locally.
However, you can use the --merge flag to incrementally add new charts to anexisting index.yaml file (a great option when working with a remote repositorylike GCS). Run helm repo index --help to learn more,
Under the hood, the helm repo add and helm repo update commands arefetching the index.yaml file and storing them in the$HELM_HOME/repository/cache/ directory. This is where the helm searchfunction finds information about charts.
A test in a helm chart lives under the templates/ directory and is a pod definition that specifies a container with a given command to run. The container should exit successfully (exit 0) for a test to be considered a success. The pod definition must contain one of the helm test hook annotations: helm.sh/hook: test-success or helm.sh/hook: test-failure.
You can run the pre-defined tests in Helm on a release using the command helm test . For a chart consumer, this is a great way to sanity check that their release of a chart (or application) works as expected.
A: (Helm < 2.5.0) This is likely caused by you creating your chart repo index without specifying the --url flag.Try recreating your index.yaml file with a command like helm repo index --url -repo/charts .,and then re-uploading it to your custom charts repo.
The helm upgrade command has a number of flags that allow you to customize itsbehavior. Special attention should be paid to --reuse-values and--reset-values and how they behave when charts change from version to versionand/or overrides are applied through --set and --set-file. For example: