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As you can see, it won't work on scale, so all the field can be templated using the chart data and a couple of helpers. As you can see, it won't work on scale, so all the field can be templated using the chart data and a couple of helpers.
```yaml ```yaml
- name: badhouseplants-git - name: my-git-mirror
git: git:
url: git@git.badhouseplants.net:allanger/helmuled-charts.git url: git@git.badhouseplants.net:allanger/helmuled-charts.git
branch: upgrade-{{ name }}-to-{{ version }} branch: upgrade-{{ name }}-to-{{ version }}
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git-msg: Hello there git-msg: Hello there
mirrors: mirrors:
- name: badhouseplants-git - name: my-git-mirror
git: git:
url: git@git.badhouseplants.net:allanger/helmuled-charts.git url: git@git.badhouseplants.net:allanger/helmuled-charts.git
branch: upgrade-{{ name }}-to-{{ version }} branch: upgrade-{{ name }}-to-{{ version }}
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Now, when we got our mirrors, we need to start mirroring. Now, when we got our mirrors, we need to start mirroring.
...to be continued... To mirror a chart you'll have to define repos first. You can choose between `helm` and `git` repos.
```yaml
repositories:
- name: db-operator
git:
url: https://github.com/db-operator/charts.git
ref: main
path: charts
- name: flux-community
helm:
url: https://fluxcd-community.github.io/helm-charts
- name: bitnami-oci
helm:
# it can be OCI too
url: oci://registry-1.docker.io/bitnamicharts/
```
And then you need to start adding charts
```yaml
charts:
# it should be the real chart name
- name: flux2
# the name of the repo from the .repositories
repository: flux-community
# it will be latest if not provided, or you can fix it here
#
# but if you use git repos, it makes sense to always use latest
# becase in a git repo usually there is only one version
# of a chart, and you either need to guess it, or just fix it
# on the repo level, and use latest here
version: latest
mirrors:
- custom-command
- my-git-mirror
```
Let's assume you've named this file `helmule.yaml`, and now it's time to test it. Execute the following
```bash
helmule -c helmule.yaml -d -w test
```
Also, `variables` can be defined per chart with `charts.[].variables` then they going to be merged with global ones
It's going to create the `test` folder, where you'll be able to find both target repos and charts to be mirrored. If you're happy with the result, run it without `-d` and `-w test` to actually mirror.
Until this moment, it looks exactly like a yet another helm chart mirroring solution, right? At least, it does to me. So let's walk through features.
---
First one is `extensions` config property.
> Currently it will only cope files to your chart after it was pulled from the upstream. But later I plan to add an ability to use variables there, so one extension can more-or-less easily be reused between charts.
Why would one need it? Well, me for example, in my clusters I use Istio as an ingress controller and db-operator to manage databases, and since usually charts are provided with `ingress` and obviously without `database` custom resources, I can't just use them without modifications. I don't want to modify manifests that are generated by helm, because of many reasons. So I need to have them in the helm chart. Since I'm using helmfile, I can add them as dependencies without forking charts, but it still not the perfect solution I guess.
So, here come extensions. You can create a `VirtualService` and a `Database`, let's say you've created something like that:
```
helmule.yaml
extensions
_helper.tpl
database.yaml
virtual-service.yaml
```
And then you can add it to you helmule config
```yaml
charts:
- name: flux2
repository: flux-community
version: latest
# Obviously, flux doesn't need any of those extensions,
# but it's just for a sake of example
extensions:
- name: Create a VirtualService and a Database
# Relative to the config
source_dir: ./extensions
# Relative to the chart root
target_dir: ./templates/extensions
mirrors:
- custom-command
- my-git-mirror
```
And if you run helmule now, you'll see additional resources added to the chart.
> Extensions currently are always trying to create the dir that is defined as a `target_dir`, so if it exists, extension will fail. It will be fixed later, but currently that's what we've got
---
The second feature is `patches`. Those are supposed to be modifications to helm chart that require more logic than just copy-paste.
There are 4 kinds of patches at the moment.
1. Regexp patch. This one will create a regexp and try to replace it with desired value. It's not checking if anything was actually changed though. It can be defined like that
```yaml
charts:
- name: flux2
patches:
- name: Some regexp patch
regexp:
path: ./patch/to/patch
```
And the patch itself should also be a yaml file:
```yaml
---
name: Replace image with picture
targets:
- values.yaml
before: image
after: picture
```
It was the first kind of patch added, so it's more or less POC. I wouldn't recommend using it at this point, unless you're really sure what you are doing
2. Git patch. You see "Git" here, but it doesn't mean that it's working only with git repos. What it's doing is it's initializing a git repo in the chart dir, and trying to apply a git patch you've provided. To create one, you could use a flag `--init-git-patch $CHART_NAME_1,$CHART_NAME_2`. Then helmule won't try to mirror charts that are listed under that flug, but it will init git repos in their root folders and prints paths to them, so you can go there, change something, execute `git diff > $CONFIG_DIR/chart.patch` and then add it to the config like that:
```yaml
charts:
- name: flux2
patches:
- name: Some git patch
git:
path: ./flux2.patch
```
3. Yq patch. It's just a helper for yq.
```yaml
charts:
- name: flux2
patches:
- name: yq example
yq:
op: Add # or Replace, or Remove
key: .home # Just a yaml key (also can be .annotations."something.annotation")
value: localhost # A value to set, is not required if operation is Remove
files: Chart.yaml # A file that should be changed
```
4. CustomCommand patch. It's not really a patch, I'd say it can be anything you want. It will just execute commands from the root dir if a chart. Example:
```yaml
- name: yamlfmt
custom_command:
commands:
- "cat <<EOT >> .yamlfmt\n formatter:\n pad_line_comments: 2\nEOT"
- yamlfmt values.yaml --conf ./yamlfmt.yaml
- rm -f yamlfmt.yaml
```
It's also possible to re-use patches by different charts. If you have a common patch, you can define it on the root level of you config:
```yaml
charts: {}
patches:
- name: yamlfmt
custom_command:
commands:
- "cat <<EOT >> .yamlfmt\n formatter:\n pad_line_comments: 2\nEOT"
- yamlfmt values.yaml --conf ./yamlfmt.yaml
- rm -f yamlfmt.yaml
```
And then, if you define a patch with the name only for a chart, it's going to be taken from global patches
```yaml
charts:
- name: flux2
patches:
- name: yamlfmt
patches:
- name: yamlfmt
custom_command:
commands:
- "cat <<EOT >> .yamlfmt\n formatter:\n pad_line_comments: 2\nEOT"
- yamlfmt values.yaml --conf ./yamlfmt.yaml
- rm -f yamlfmt.yaml
```
---
One last thing that is not described yet is the `include` property. It looks like that:
```yaml
include:
- kind Charts # Can also be Repositories and Mirrors, other properties will be includable later
path: ./charts.yaml
charts: {}
```
The included file will be marshalled into a vector of desired property. But the file that is included can contain either a list or just a single object, so both will work
```yaml
# charts.yaml
name: flux2
repository: flux-community
mirrors:
- my-git-mirror
```
```yaml
# charts.yaml
- name: flux2
repository: flux-community
mirrors:
- my-git-mirror
```