Introduction

Helm Diff Notifier is a simple tool based on helm-diff, mainly using in the CI pipeline, to send the helm diff result to GitHub PR review page.

Features

• Could simplify diff result by picking up the key diff lines
  • Eventually found there is already a feature in helm-diff, that could simplify the final result by providing option -C int
• Desensitization by using provided rules

Usage

Right now it is only supported in CircleCI pipeline, you could config the tool like below:

1. Setup Github Token as GITHUB_API_TOKEN in the CircleCI context

2. Config CircleCI jobs in config.yml to use this tool with helm diff result

   helm diff upgrade -n namespace foo-release | helm-diff-notifier

Development

Prerequisites:

• Docker

This project is fully dockerized. So you could setup your local env by only install Docker.

Basic commands used in local dev:

• enable debug mode, export HELM_DIFF_DEBUG=true
• run test, make test
• build local dev image, make build-dev-image

More commands you could check the details in Makefile