Questions tagged [helm]
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Is Helm not for me?
I've been studying Kubernetes and Helm lately (I'm new to both) and figuring out how I can fit them into my companies CI/CD process. On top of this, I want to adapt to the GitOps process, where you ...
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Use one Helm chart for ALL microservices?
This is a follow up question to my post Parameterized Kubernetes manifest files?.
I understand more about Helm now, after lots of reading, including the Learn Helm book (which I recommend). I still ...
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With Helm, should I use a Helm repo or a Git repo for my charts?
I reading the Learn Helm book, and it shows pushing up Helm packages to either a Helm repo in Artifactory or Nexus, or in a Git repo? Should I use both? Or one or the other? And if one or the other, ...
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Connecting Gradle with Helm/Kubernetes
I understand the concept of GitOps, where Git is the source of truth.
Well with us that's partly true. Gradle is our source of truth, and our build.gradle files, which are stored in Git, define the ...
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Using helm to manage an “environment?”
I'm new to Kubernetes, and hence helm, so I've been reading a lot, and teaching myself by setting up a cluster, services, deployments, and pods. In my case I use AWS EKS.
I now at least understand ...
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Parameterized Kubernetes manifest files?
I'm learning Kubernetes, coming from an AWS/CloudFormation background to set up my company's infrastructure. One of the strengths of CloudFormation is the use a template that can be parameterized for ...
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Is there a way to combine helm with some other tool for k8s configuration management without conflicts?
Currently I have a k8s project with multiple services which are managed by a helm chart. Said helm chart is installed on my local machine and I want to keep it this way if it's possible. But now I ...
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Jenkins agent fails to connect to docker socket in latest helm chart
Preface
I have been using older version of Jenkins on Kubernetes with the Kubernetes plug spinning up Jenkins Agents deployed by the official Helm charts. I've had no issues with them. In fact I ...
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How do I install Istio 1.8 using Helm with custom profile?
I am looking at the documentation to install Istio using helm:
https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/install/helm/
I want to use a custom profile that I have a yaml for. However, on that page I do not ...
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Schedule K8s pods to multiple AZ evenly in EKS 1.18
I have a requirement to distribute pods of a given deployment across 3 AZ. We are using HPA with 3 min and max 5 setup. The worker nodes are 12 initially in EKS cluster with maximum of 15. How can I ...
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Helm Installation fails with shared config maps
I have a couple of deployments in Kubernetes packaged using Helm. Both the deployments are different but they share the same config map.
When performing installation via Helm the first deployment is ...
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Helm Repo: can it host dockerfiles and other image-building artifacts
I have a service that I want to port to Helm. It's a django application that requires memcached and postgresql and a forward proxy like nginx.
I would ideally like to have one repository with all that ...
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Helm charts: Can't access defined named templates in subcharts
I am having trouble accessing some named templates defined in the main chart from subcharts.
As it is in the documentation that every defined named template is global, I'd like to get help on what I ...
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Deploy to kubernetes cluster using helm with smoke tests
I'm working on moving our micro-service to kubernetes cluster using helm charts.
Flow will be
Deploy the app
Run automated smoke test
If the test passes, route traffic to a new set of pods.
If the ...
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Should add `charts/` folder to `.helmignore`?
By default my habit is to not add dependencies (or subcharts) to the repo.
But around I don't see charts/ being added to .helmignores that much; so I am wondering if there's a good reason.
Isn't it ...
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How to add timeout to a helm chart?
I have a helm chart which pulls a lot of images from various registries and deploys a lot of pods. It runs a lot of k8s jobs before getting the pods up.
Overall, helm install command takes huge time, ...
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How does Kubernetes terminate an instance after helm upgrade
I have a node.js application that is running on a Kubernetes cluster, I am using helm to manage it currently. I have ran into a bit of an issue, when the application starts it connects to a service ...
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How is it a good practice to version your helm charts for each deployment?
I'm trying to set up a process to release a web app with helm in my company and I can't find a satisfying way.
Basically each for each push in a feature branch, I want to:
Build a docker image and ...
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GitLab CI/CD page listing many gitlab runners that no longer exist
I am running GitLab Runner using a Helm chart as described on the GitLab Runner Helm Chart page.
Everything seems to be working, but after about two months of running I see on my GitLab group that ...
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How can I ensure Helm doesn't install a dependency twice?
If I have a chart, say ChartA, that has a dependency on ChartB, I want to only install ChartB if it hasn't been installed already.
Why? Let's say I run 2 copies of ChartA, and they both need a ...
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Is there a way through which I can control type of load balancer like round robin , least-connections etc using helm charts?
I am researching different types of loadbalancing methods available through kubernetes .I want to implement & see before deciding on one .I'm stuck at how to actually define typeof-loadbalancer.If ...
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helm install causes nil pointer
I'm really a beginner with kubernetes and really struggle with this simple tutorial from baeldung.com
The only thing I did different (intentionally) was using a google cloud cluster instead of ...
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Getting permission denied with docker pipeline on jenkins
I have jenkins deployed via helm charts on kubernetes cluster
Now i want to be able to run helm to deploy helm charts applications on my kubernetes cluster and have the following in my jenkinsfile
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Unable to get Helm to work with ECR
I'm using Helm v3 with AWS ECR on a Kubernetes cluster that was creating using Kops. I have checked and the role kops assigned to the nodes does have ECR permissions. When I deploy my helm chart I ...
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What's the way to deploy a resource once on a helm chart that is deployed multiple times?
in my use case i've got a helm chart for my application.
One of the resources is actually a Grafana Dashboard for the application.
This dashboard actually monitors all instances of the application, ...
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Persistent storageClass for GitLab on Kubernetes [closed]
Using the official helm chart and documentation, I want to deploy GitLab to Kubernetes. The storage guide shows how to store persistent data and also offers example Helm values. Sadly this doesn't ...
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“Error: forwarding ports: Upgrade request required” Error in helm of a kubernetes cluster
I have a kubernetes cluster built using kubespray and imported to Rancher.
The nodes are configured with
CentOS Linux 7 3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64
Docker version : 18.9.5
Kubelet version : v1.14.1
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Deploying Anchore to Kubernetes Cluster using Helm
Kubernetes version 1.14.2 (Client) 1.14.1 (Server)
Anchore Chart anchore-engine.1.0.5 App Version 0.4.0
I'm trying to deploy Anchore via Helm to a Kubernetes cluster, but I'm getting failures in ...
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Increase Kubernetes Nginx Ingress limits for large images in Docker registry
When pushing images to a self hosted Docker registry installed using their official helm chart, this works for some images. But for one image, I'm not able to push two layers. Docker retry it several ...
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helm - cannot get resource “namespaces” in API group
I installed Kubernetes, helm on the Ubuntu 16.04.6 Box, I want to deploy kubernetes-dashboard using helm but getting below error while installing it
$ helm install stable/kubernetes-dashboard --name ...
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How to use same Helm dependency in many charts?
For example, I have this charts structure:
āāā parentChart
āĀ Ā āāā charts
āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āāā childChart1
āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āāā charts
āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āāā postgresql-3.11.6.tgz
āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āāā Chart.yaml
āĀ Ā āĀ Ā āĀ ...
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Automate Helm's tiller installation with Terraform
I need to be able to generate disposable kubernetes environments using terraform. These environments should use helm for application deployment and ideally have tiller installed during the terraform ...
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How to manage 10+ team environments with Helm and Kubernetes?
I'm looking for feedback on how we can improve our team environment and staging deployment process.
We currently have 10 agile teams, and set up our Kubernetes deployments through Helm as follows:
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Accessing External REST api From Wthin Kubernetes Cluster
This is my first foray into Kubernetes land... I'm still pretty shaky on how things work and still wrapping my head around some of the concepts so please bear with me there.
The application I am ...
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Installing Helm charts using Terraform
I have been trying to install Helm charts using Terraform in a cluster which operates in GKE.
My question is in two parts:
Is it a good practice to use Terraform for installing Helm charts?
I have ...
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Kubernetes on k3s can't resolve domains from custom dns server (fritz.box with dnsmasq)
I have a dns server running at 192.168.0.19 for custom domains like .fritz.box. Having a single node cluster on k3s, Rancher was installed using a subdomain server2.fritz.box using this command:
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Helm install or upgrade release failed on Kubernetes cluster: the server could not find the requested resource or UPGRADE FAILED: no deployed releases
Using helm for deploying chart on my Kubernetes cluster, since one day, I can't deploy a new one or upgrading one existed.
Indeed, each time I am using helm I have an error message telling me that it ...
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Access denied when pulling private registry image using helm with gitlab runner helm chart and ci job
I have a kubernetes cluster with 1 master and 2 workers. All nodes have their IP address. Let's call them like this:
master-0
worker-0
worker-1
The network pod policy and all my nodes communication ...
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declaratively mount a service account secret in OpenShift
I am using helm charts to deploy some webhook handlers. The handlers need to connect to the cluster they are running on to deploy the configuration within it. It works but one step is tricky to move ...
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Pod's state “pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims” when deploy Jenkins with Helm chart
I try to deploy Jenkins in local Kubernetes cluster with Helm from repo stable/jenkins:lts. But after deployment I get pod which has status "pod has unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims". PVC has ...
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Deploy helm chart from Jenkins to Kubernetes
I want to deploy helm chart from Jenkins to Kubernetes but I don't find any Plugins in Jenkins for Helm.
How can I tell Jenkins to run Helm chart in Kubernetes ?
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How to get all log files on kubernetes master node? [closed]
I need to receive all container logs using Filebeat autodiscover. When I deployed Filebeat to Kubernetes without using helm, I got all the container logs in the first attempt. I want to do the same ...
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Consul Helm chart: Connect Injector service not working
Below is my config that I am applying over the latest version of the chart (0.4.0).
The consul client daemonset pods come up and successfully register with the cluster.
The connect injector webhook ...
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Tfs octopus migration to k8s and docker
My current client uses .net and .net core, tfs and deploys via octopus. They want to use helm, k8s and docker. With all of the environments, env variables are already in octopus.
I am thinking to ...
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Stolon vs CrunchyData for HA Postgresql
I'm using helm charts with kubernetes and I'm trying to deploy High Availability Postgresql database and found this article mentioning three project that provide HA Postgresql:
1- Stolon
2- ...
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Helm/ YAML indentation issue
I am etting weird YAML indentation with some conditional stuff, effectively I'm doing:
resources:
{{ toYaml .Values.resources | indent 10 }}
{{- if .Values.filebeat.enabled -}}
- name: elastic-...
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Original Helm chart gone - how can I find / get it from the cluster?
I'm connected to a cluster which has a release, from a chart, but it was installed by someone else who I think used a tweaked, locally-stored chart.
I don't have access to their original chart/repo. ...
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How to pull a docker image from a private docker registry using Helm?
When the default values.yaml is inspected it is not clear how to pull a private docker image.
# Default values for sonatype-nexus-apt.
# This is a YAML-formatted file.
# Declare variables to be ...
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What is the impact of using Helm Deployments instead of StatefulSets for Databases like MongoDB or MySQL?
The definition of a stateless app seems to apply to database servers like MongoDB or MySQL. I found Helm Charts as a kind of template-repository for Kubernetes. However, the stable builds all use ...
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Why does Helm time out on almost every action?
I'm trying to set up helm for the first time and I'm having troubles.
First, I've created account with cluster-admin role. (According to https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/blob/master/docs/rbac.md#...
