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Helm charts in the Package Registry (FREE)
Introduced in GitLab 14.1.
WARNING: The Helm package registry for GitLab is under development and isn't ready for production use due to limited functionality.
Publish Helm packages in your project's Package Registry. Then install the packages whenever you need to use them as a dependency.
For documentation of the specific API endpoints that Helm package manager clients use, see the Helm API documentation.
Build a Helm package
Creating a Helm package is documented in the Helm documentation.
Authenticate to the Helm repository
To authenticate to the Helm repository, you need either:
Publish a package
Once built, a chart can be uploaded to the stable
channel with curl
or helm-push
:
-
With
curl
:curl --request POST \ --form 'chart=@mychart-0.1.0.tgz' \ --user <username>:<personal_access_token> \ https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/packages/helm/api/stable/charts
-
With the
helm-push
plugin:helm repo add --username <username> --password <personal_access_token> project-1 https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/packages/helm/stable helm push mychart-0.1.0.tgz project-1
Use CI/CD to publish a Helm package
To publish a Helm package automated through GitLab CI/CD, you can use
CI_JOB_TOKEN
in place of the personal access token in your commands.
For example:
image: curlimages/curl:latest
stages:
- upload
upload:
stage: upload
script:
- 'curl --request POST --user gitlab-ci-token:$CI_JOB_TOKEN --form "chart=@mychart-0.1.0.tgz" "${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/helm/api/stable/charts"'
Install a package
To install the latest version of a chart, use the following command:
helm repo add --username <username> --password <personal_access_token> project-1 https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/packages/helm/stable
helm install my-release project-1/mychart
If the repo has previously been added, you may need to run:
helm repo update
To update the Helm client with the most currently available charts.
See Using Helm for more information.