#helmfile (2023-06)
Questions and discussion around helmfile https://github.com/roboll/helmfile and https://github.com/cloudposse/helmfiles
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2023-06-10
:wave: I’m starting to use helmfile for a microservices deployment, and each service has its own helmfile that specifies their deps as helmfiles: so that you can apply each service independently and ensure it’s deps are installed. This works well, but trying to run helmfile deps seems to cause the same charts to get re-pulled for every commonly shared deps. Is this expected, or is there some way to optimize it?
For example, I’m running
helmfile deps -f services/banana
bases:
- ../repos.yaml
helmfiles:
- ../apple/helmfile.yaml
- ../pear/helmfile.yaml
releases:
- name: banana
chart: dev/banana
version: "*"
I think I want to skip deps for apple and pear as they already have lock files
This works but seems wrong,
helmfile deps -f services/banana --selector name=banana
also helmfile list shows the common charts repeated.
my problem is both apple and pear have,
helmfiles:
- ../orange/helmfile.yaml
So i’m getting 2 orange charts listed
am I supposed to use needs instead of helmfiles?
Yep that did the trick. Relevant docs https://helmfile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#selectors-and-needs
2023-06-22
Hi. I’m trying to fetch charts using helmfile. There’s a –output-dir-template flag than can be used to template the path, but I wonder if it’s possible to use the url for path instead of {{ .ChartName }}?
