Helm registry plugin

Install the Helm Registry Plugin

First, Install the latest Helm release.

If you are an OSX user, quickstart with brew: brew install kubernetes-helm

Next download and install the registry plugin for Helm.

Install

$ mkdir -p ~/.helm/plugins/
$ cd ~/.helm/plugins/ && git clone https://github.com/app-registry/appr-helm-plugin.git registry

# On first use it downloads required assets

$ helm registry --help
Registry plugin assets do not exist, download them now !
downloading https://github.com/app-registry/appr-cli/releases/download/v0.4.1/cnr-linux-x64 ...

Upgrade

Upgrade the appr binary

$ helm registry list-plugin-versions
$ helm registry upgrade-plugin VERSION
downloading https://github.com/app-registry/appr-cli/releases/download/v0.4.1/cnr-linux-x64 ...

Upgrade the helm plugin

$ cd ~/.helm/plugins/registry
$ git pull origin master
$ helm registry upgrade-plugin
downloading https://github.com/app-registry/appr-cli/releases/download/v0.4.1/cnr-linux-x64 ...

Deploy Jenkins Using Helm from the Quay Registry

helm registry version quay.io

Output should be:

Api-version: {u'cnr-api': u'0.X.Y'}
Client-version: 0.X.Y

Install Jenkins

helm init
helm registry list quay.io
helm registry install quay.io/charts/jenkins

Create and Push Your Own Chart

First, create an account on https://quay.io and login to the CLI using the username and password

Set an environment for the username created at Quay to use through the rest of these instructions.

export USERNAME=philips

Login to Quay with the Helm registry plugin:

helm registry login -u $USERNAME quay.io

Create a new Helm chart, the default will create a sample nginx application:

helm create nginx

Push this new chart to Quay and then deploy it from Quay.

cd nginx
helm registry push --namespace $USERNAME quay.io
helm registry install quay.io/$USERNAME/nginx