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| # test deploying Chart Museum from the custom repository | |
| # offical repository for chartmuseum is | |
| # https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/chartmuseum/chartmuseum | |
| helm repo add chartmuseum https://chartmuseum.github.io/charts | |
| helm install chartmuseum chartmuseum/chartmuseum --dry-run --debug | |
| # deploy Chart Museum | |
| helm install chartmuseum chartmuseum/chartmuseum --set env.open.DISABLE_API=false | |
| # Ref - helm install my-chartmuseum chartmuseum/chartmuseum --version 3.10.1 | |
| # view release | |
| helm list | |
| # view Chart Museum pod ans its labels | |
| kubectl get pods --show-labels | |
| # grab the Chart Museum pod name using the label retrieved from the previous command | |
| # Powershell | |
| $POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -l "app.kubernetes.io/name=chartmuseum" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}") | |
| #Linux | |
| POD_NAME=$(kubectl get pods -l "app.kubernetes.io/name=chartmuseum" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].metadata.name}") | |
| echo $POD_NAME | |
| # set up port forwarding | |
| # this would be accessible only by 127.0.0.1 | |
| kubectl port-forward $POD_NAME 8080:8080 --namespace default | |
| # this would be accessible by NodeIP of the host where u ran a command | |
| kubectl port-forward --address 0.0.0.0 $POD_NAME 8080:8080 --namespace default | |
| # confirm Chart Museum is up and running | |
| # http://127.0.0.1:8080 | |
| # view Helm help to get location of Helm Configuration Path | |
| helm --help | |
| # navigate to folder containing repository names and URLs, e.g. - | |
| # C:\Users\apruski\AppData\Roaming\helm\ | |
| # add Chart Museum as a Helm repository | |
| helm repo add chartmuseum http://127.0.0.1:8080 | |
| # list repositories | |
| helm repo list | |
| # view updated repositories.yaml file | |
| # C:\Users\apruski\AppData\Roaming\helm\ | |
| # naviage to packaged Chart | |
| cd C:\Charts | |
| # confirm curl | |
| curl --help | |
| # if using powershell v5.1 you'll need to remove | |
| # the alias that maps curl to Invoke-WebRequest | |
| Remove-Item alias:\curl | |
| # push chart to Chart Museum | |
| # a place where u have ourchart-0.1.0.tgz | |
| cd /home/ubuntu/charts | |
| curl --data-binary "@ourchart-0.1.0.tgz" http://localhost:8080/api/charts | |
| # search for the chart | |
| helm search repo chartmuseum/ourchart | |
| # view helm help again to get Helm Cache Path | |
| helm --help | |
| # view cached chartmuseum-index.yaml file for repository | |
| # C:\Users\apruski\AppData\Local\Temp\helm\repository | |
| # update Helm repositories | |
| helm repo update | |
| # view updated chartmuseum-index.yaml file for repository | |
| # C:\Users\apruski\AppData\Local\Temp\helm\repository | |
| # search Chart Museum for our chart | |
| helm search repo chartmuseum/ourchart | |
| # we can also see the chart in the Helm section of | |
| # of the Kubernetes extension for vs code | |
| # deploy the chart from Chart Museum | |
| helm install ourchart chartmuseum/ourchart | |
| # view release | |
| helm list |
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| ################################################## | |
| # go to Github and create a repository | |
| ################################################## | |
| # clone repository locally | |
| git clone https://github.com/dbafromthecold/DemoHelmRepo.git | |
| # navigate to repo | |
| cd C:\git\DemoHelmRepo | |
| # copy packaged chart into repo | |
| cp C:\charts\ourchart-0.1.0.tgz . | |
| # index repo | |
| helm repo index . | |
| # view index.yaml | |
| cat index.yaml | |
| # push chart to Github | |
| git config user.name "Rajesh Kumar" | |
| git congig user.email "devops@rajeshkumar.xyz" | |
| git add . | |
| git commit -m "added ourchart to repo" | |
| git push | |
| ################################################## | |
| # get URL from index.yaml file in GitHub repository | |
| ################################################## | |
| # add Githb repo as a Helm repository | |
| helm repo add dbafromthecold https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbafromthecold/DemoHelmRepo/master | |
| helm repo add rajesh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devopsschool-demo-temporary/demp4helm/main | |
| # navigate to folder containing repository names and URLs | |
| # C:\Users\apruski\AppData\Roaming\helm\ | |
| helm env | |
| cd /root/.config/helm | |
| cd /root/.cache/helm | |
| more repositories.yaml | |
| cd repository/ | |
| more rajesh-index.yaml | |
| # view cached index.yaml file for repository | |
| # C:\Users\apruski\AppData\Local\Temp\helm\repository | |
| # search new Helm repository | |
| helm search repo dbafromthecold/ourchart | |
| # we can also see the chart in the Helm section of | |
| # of the Kubernetes extension for vs code | |
| # deploy chart from repository | |
| helm install ourchart dbafromthecold/ourchart | |
| # confirm deployment | |
| helm list |
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