oam/knowledge base/kubernetes/helmfile.md

Helmfile

Declarative spec for deploying helm charts.

Leverages kubectl.

Table of contents

1. TL;DR
2. Further readings

TL;DR

# Show what happens in the internal computations.
helmfile --debug -e 'environment' apply

# Show the difference between the current state and what would be applied.
# Requires `helm` to have the 'diff' plugin installed.
helmfile \
  -f 'custom.yml' \
  -e 'environment' \
  diff \
    --values 'environment.values.yaml'

Further readings

• Github
• Helm
• kubectl
• Kubernetes