Helm chart

[eddycharly]

I'm using a helm chart i wrote to deploy Tekton for a few months now and it's working great.

Would you be interested in a contribution for this ?

[afrittoli]

@eddycharly thanks, I think it would be a nice idea. We do have an operator already, but there's a whole ecosystem of people that uses prominently helm, so it would be good.
Would you be interested in maintaining it and documenting it - at least until more contributors come along? What does it take to host an helm chart repo where people could download the chart from?
@vdemeester @bobcatfish thoughts?

[eddycharly]

Sure, i will be happy to maintain it.
Technical documentation is already available as it is generated with helm-docs.

I also have a couple of prow jobs to automate releasing new versions of the chart.

On the hosting side, it can be as easy as putting a tar.gz and index.yaml in a bucket. That's the easiest solution, another option is to use chartmuseum.

I currently use chartmuseum because it is hosted on a private chart repository but for public charts, there's nothing better/more cost efficient than the bucket solution i guess.

[eddycharly]

I'll try to open a PR today or tomorrow, it will be easier to discuss about it.

[afrittoli]

OK - thank you. Would you like to add the PR to the experimental repo?
If we decide to host this, I think it might go into a dedicated repo.

[eddycharly]

Ok for the experimental repo.
It will start the discussion, if you want to put it somewhere else i will close the PR and open another one on the target repo.

[eddycharly]

I opened a PR with some WIP here tektoncd/experimental#494

I started with a copy of my helm chart and took the opportunity to rewrite/improve a few things.
I hope it's a good starting point.

[eddycharly]

Thinking about a versioning policy for helm charts.

A good approach would be to use the same major and minor version as the target Tekton component, keeping the patch to increment on bug fixes.

In any case, the appVersion in the chart description should be the full target component version.

Ok for you ?

[eddycharly]

Closing. Too broad. More relevant issues exist in the experimental repo.