Helm Dashboard

A simplified way of working with Helm.

Local Testing

Prerequisites: helm and kubectl binaries installed and operational.

Until we make our repo public, we have to use a custom way to install the plugin.

There is a need to build binary for plugin to function, run:

go build -o bin/dashboard .

To install, checkout the source code and run from source dir:

helm plugin install .

Local install of plugin just creates a symlink, so making the changes and rebuilding the binary would not require to reinstall a plugin.

To use the plugin, run in your terminal:

helm dashboard

Then, use the web UI.

Uninstalling

To uninstall, run:

helm plugin uninstall dashboard

Support Channels

We have two main channels for supporting the tool users: Slack community for general conversations and GitHub issues for real bugs.

Roadmap

Internal Milestone 1

• Helm Plugin Packaging
• CLI launcher
• Web Server with REST API

First Public Version

Listing the installed applications View k8s resources created by the application (describe, status) Viewing revision history for application View manifest diffs between revisions, also changelogs etc Analytics reporting (telemetry)

Further Ideas

Setting parameter values and installing Installing new app from repo Uninstalling the app completely Reconfiguring the application Rollback a revision

Validate manifests before deploy and get better errors Switch clusters (?) Browsing repositories Adding new repository

Recognise & show ArgoCD-originating charts/objects Have cleaner idea on the web API structure See if we can build in Chechov or Validkube validation