Helmer

Helmer is a web UI dashboard to visualize and manage charts in your Helm repository. The application is available as docker image so that you can host it in your premise and connect to any public or private Chartmuseum server.

Docker Image Usage

The Docker image available at bhsonu/helmer

Chartmusum server url is required to run the application. Refer to Chartmuseum to setup Chartmuseum server

docker run --rm -it \
  -p 5000:5000 \
  -e CHART_MUSEUM_URL=http://localhost:9000
  bhsonu/helmer:latest

After successfull docker run, the dashboard will be available at http://localhost:5000

Development

The application is fully written in go language using the gin-gonic web framework.

• gin-gonic - The web framework for GO
• go - Programing language
• go-modules - Go Package management

You need go 1.11+ installed in the machine for building the application without Docker.

Use docker-compose.yaml to build and run locally

Configuration

Parameter	Default	Description
CHART_MUSEUM_URL	http://localhost:9000	URL Endpoint of your chartmuseum server
CHART_MUSEUM_API	/api/charts	Chartmuseum API Endpoint
APP_PORT	5000	Application Port

Limitations

The current version only supports Chartmuseum Helm server, future release will support all sorts of Helm servers