# Release Notes v1.0.0

First release of the plugin! 🚀

Features

✅ Deploy & Rollback: Deploy Helm charts and rollback to previous revisions
✅ Values Management: Support for values files and --set key=value pairs
✅ Namespace Support: Custom namespaces with optional creation
✅ Repository Management: Add and authenticate with Helm repositories
✅ Build Metadata: Tracks deployment state with Buildkite annotations
✅ Comprehensive Config: Timeout, atomic deployments, dry-run, and more
✅ Full Test Coverage: 13 test scenarios covering all functionality

Configuration Options

Required

• mode: Operation mode (deploy or rollback)
• release: Helm release name
• chart: Helm chart name or path (required for deploy mode)

Optional

• namespace: Kubernetes namespace (default: default)
• values: Array of values files
• set: Array of key=value pairs for --set
• kubeconfig: Path to kubeconfig file
• timeout: Helm operation timeout (default: 300s)
• wait: Wait for deployment completion (default: true)
• atomic: Rollback on failed upgrade (default: true)
• create_namespace: Create namespace if missing (default: false)
• dry_run: Simulate deployment (default: false)
• revision: Specific revision for rollback
• repo_url: Helm repository URL
• repo_name: Helm repository name
• force: Force resource updates (default: false)
• history_max: Maximum revisions per release (default: 10)

Requirements

• bash
• helm
• jq

New Contributors

• @Mykematt made their first contribution

Full Changelog: https://github.com/buildkite-plugins/deployment-helm-chart-buildkite-plugin/commits/v1.0.0