At Banzai Cloud we use Helm as our package manager to deploy Kubernetes applications. This is a collection of curated Banzai Cloud Helm charts being part of our PaaS, Pipeline.
We made Helm deployments available through a RESTful API as well - Helm via REST
Helm has some requirements for testing charts which can be cumbersome or requires resources developers might not have on their laptop. We have automated testing of Helm charts from a feature branch.
Charts are automatically pushed to the Banzai cloud S3 repository from every feature branch. e.g.:
- stable charts from branch
masterare pushed tohttp://kubernetes-charts.banzaicloud.com/branch/master
These charts can be used from any helm environment manually by adding them as a new repo with (note the / at the end of the URL):
helm repo add banzaicloud-stable http://kubernetes-charts.banzaicloud.com/branch/master
If you want to test on a Pipeline cluster from the control plane make sure to set HELM_HOME and KUBECONFIG before issuing helm commands.
Or if you want to test it from Pipeline, you can do it by specifying the following environment variable:
PIPELINE_HELM_BANZAIREPOSITORYURL="http://kubernetes-charts.banzaicloud.com/branch/master"
Clusters created with Pipeline will add this Helm repo as banzaicloud-stable.